Misplaced metamorphosis

... The researchers used genetically engineered mice with labeled immature, or progenitor, cells to trace specific cell lineages through the process of renegade bone formation, which is induced by skeleton-stimulating molecules called bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). The study has important implications for...

Gene Plays 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' Role in Deadly Brain Cancer

...g these tumors. But this new study found that STAT3 is actually a tumor-suppressor gene in other types of glioblastoma, meaning that the gene keeps renegade cancer cells in check. So, depending on a person's genetic makeup, STAT3 can play completely different roles in glioblastoma, the researchers said....

Gene plays 'Jekyll and Hyde' in brain cancer

...oncogene in certain types of glioblastoma, in others it becomes whats called a tumor suppressor gene, a type of gene often responsible for keeping the renegade cancer cells in check. In other words, the same gene in the same cancer can play a completely different role from one person to the next, dependin...

Anti-Cancer Drug Shows Early Promise in Pulmonary Hypertension

...ypertension, those that line the blood vessels leading to the lungs – release signals that stimulate the growth of small new blood vessels to feed the renegade cells, allowing further proliferation, and thickening of the vessel walls. Sorafenib appears to interfere with that process. Although originally...

New and unique treatment for Psoriasis patients

...ing new options in treatment, now have fresh hope with the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the new drug, Amevive. This unique drug targets renegade immune cells to control hard-to-treat psoriasis. Psoriasis has been thought to occur when the immune system goes amok and cells called memory effector...

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Renegade RNA -- Clues to cancer and normal growth

...that a tiny piece of genetic code apparently goes where no bit of it has gone before, and it gets there under its own internal code. A report on the renegade ribonucleic acid, and the code that directs its movement, will be published Jan. 5 in Science. MicroRNAs, already implicated in cancer and normal...

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Batman Teams with Senator Katherine Laforge to Help Free America from OPEC

...ican, not just a registered republican voter, but Hardin County’s Republican party Chairman. In Hulagu’s Web,” Senator Laforge was a renegade Republican alienating many of her party officials because she was running on a green energy platform. The fact that Kent Batman is a Republican and a ...