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Study unmasks how ovarian tumors evade immune system

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have determined how the characteristic shedding of fatty substances, or lipids, by ovarian tumors allows the cancer to evade the body's immune system, leaving the disease to spread unchecked. Ovarian cancer is considered to be one of the most aggressive malignancies, ki...

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CV Therapeutics Announces Eight Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007

...ient Characteristics and Costs; Poster, Wednesday, September 5, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CEST Late Sodium Current: Reduction of Repolarization Reserve unmasks the Role of Late Sodium Current in Rabbit Isolated Hearts; Poster, Sunday, September 2, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CEST Mechanism of Ranolazine Block of ...

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UCSD team unmasks family of immune system invaders

Like a family of petty criminals gone wrong, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were surprised to find that bacterial pathogens found in a number of troublesome diseases are actually related. Not only that, their wrong-doing is carried out by disguising themselves, then ...

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siRNA screening of the cell cycle with two dynamic GFP sensors (from Discovery Matters Issue 1, July 2005)

...thin the PSLD retains the fusion protein within the nuclei of G1 cells. Phosphorylation of serine 967 within the PSLD by CDK2/cyclin E during S phase unmasks a previously inactive nuclear export sequence that predominates over the NLS leading to export of the fusion protein into the cytoplasm in S phase cel...