Documents tagged 'Protein'
Published: 15/11/2008
Antibodies directed against a specific sequence of amino acids in the prion protein can selectively recognize the disease-associated variant, but not the normal cellular prion protein, Neil Cashman and colleagues report in the July issue of Nature Medicine. The finding may lead to new...
Published: 15/11/2008
Scientists have successfully blocked the spread of human breast cancer implanted into mice. If breast cancer - and other forms of the disease - can be stopped from spreading around the body, then many lives could be saved. A team from the San Francisco VA Medical Center were able to stop the...
Published: 15/11/2008
Scientists have discovered a way to kill the malaria parasite - by targeting its sweet tooth. Malaria kills 3,000 children every day and the parasite that causes the disease is becoming harder to treat as it develops resistance to more and more drugs. So scientists are striving to come up...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Joanne Nicholas mediastaff@mskcc.org 212-639-3573 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Discovery may aid in diagnosis, prognosis, and possibly prevention NEW YORK, NY (USA)In patients with prostate cancer, one change that can be seen at the molecular level is the loss of the PTEN...
Published: 15/11/2008
The diversity of life in the sea is emerging as the most important new source of drugs to fight cancer. The first of a generation of medicines based on marine organisms has been approved by the European Commission for use against ovarian cancer. At least three others are in advanced clinical...
Published: 15/11/2008
Research in mice suggests the inability of a certain protein to exit the brain may be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease. The new clue comes from a Saint Louis University study in the October issue of Neuroscience. The findings about the amyloid beta protein may offer scientists a new approach...
Published: 15/11/2008
Protein ratios in spinal fluid may help diagnosis of patients suspected to have Alzheimer’s disease, according to Swiss researchers. The two proteins - phosphorylated tau protein (phospho-tau) and beta-amyloid peptide-42 (A-beta-42) - have already been linked with Alzheimer’s. But...
Published: 15/11/2008
British scientists have taken a step forward in their effort to find out why breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body. They have found that certain types of cancerous cells are attracted to other areas by a naturally occurring protein. They have shown that blocking this protein,...
Published: 15/11/2008
Yeast is already invaluable to humans - it helps make beer and bread - but scientists are hoping to use it to mass produce lifesaving drugs. US researchers have managed to get a particular type of yeast to secrete a body chemical called a glycoprotein. This and similar proteins are the raw...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Joanna Downer jdowner1@jhmi.edu 410-614-5105 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Three Johns Hopkins researchers propose, for the first time, that HIV and other retroviruses can use a Trojan horse style of infection, taking advantage of a cloak of human proteins to sneak into cells....
