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oncogene - A gene that causes cells to grow in an uncontrolled (i.e. tumourous) manner. Oncogenes are mutant forms of normal functional genes (called proto-oncogenes) that have a role in regulating cell proliferation. [FAO]

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Prostate cancer: One man's journey  -  21 Aug 2007
NorthJersey.com,...scientists recently identified a genetic combination in a particularly deadly prostate cancer, according to a study last month in the journal Oncogene.

Turning Off Oncogene Restarts Senescence  -  Jul 31, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found that switching off a single malfunctioning gene, c-Myc, which produces a protein that promotes cell

The wonders of olive oil!  -  Aug 20, 2007
Times of India,It has the ability to reduce the affect of an oncogene, a gene that will turn a host cell into a cancer cell. It can even help to fight breast cancer. it

Pathway Links Inflammation, Angiogenesis And Breast Cancer  -  Aug 9, 2007
Science Daily (press release)In the case of the tumor suppressor and the oncogene, CBP will bind to only one at a time. "You can think of them as a good guy, and a bad guy,

American Chemical Society (ACS) 234th Annual Meeting & Exposition  -  Aug 20, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Galectin-1 and Galectin-3 can interact with oncogenic Ras and mediate cell transformation induced by this oncogene. Galectins can modulate cell adhesion and

Scientists Create Breast Tumor Stem Cells  -  Aug 14, 2007
Washington Post,Dr. Robert A. Weinberg, who discovered the first human oncogene in 1982, was senior author of this paper. Recent research has suggested that not all cells

Celebrated scientist leading research on autism  -  Aug 14, 2007
Newsday,He's also co-discoverer of the first human oncogene, a molecule capable of transforming normal cells into malignant ones. His work at the lab also led to

Study: Death proteins have vital function  -  Aug 13, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Ironically, it's an oncogene implicated in a kind of cancer called ... > full story To Avoid Detection, HIV Disrupts Immune Cell Migration (January 20,

A New Twist  -  Aug 7, 2007
Genomics & Proteomics,The idea is that a miRNA is designed to suppress the expression of a specific oncogene. That miRNA is introduced into cancer cells by one of a variety of

Full Text  -  Aug 16, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...growth restraints and develop into malignant tumors--for example, by acquiring extra copies of an oncogene, or losing a tumor suppressor gene (3, 4).

Role of extra chromosomes reconsidered  -  Aug 16, 2007
Scientist,Researchers have long postulated that extra chromosomes, and the oncogene copies they contain, may be to blame for cancer cells' unchecked proliferation.

Scientists Discover Gene That Suppresses Tumours In A Number Of ...  -  Aug 15, 2007
Medical News Today,One is by preventing adhesion-dependent growth, and the other is by stopping the activity of an oncogene, Cyclin D1. Cyclin D1 has been found to be

Potential cancer treatment is discovered  -  Jul 31, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Hutchinson Cancer Center and at the University of Washington (Seattle) has made an important discovery linking the powerful cancer-causing oncogene, .

Green tea, mushroom may protect against breast cancer  -  Aug 13, 2007
Food Consumer,Research Institute in Indianapolis , Indiana found the effect was mediated by the down regulation of expression of oncogene c-myc in MDA-MB-231 cells.

New Gene Linked To Breast Cancer Risk Identified  -  Jul 26, 2007
Science Daily (press release)..."FOXP3 is the first X chromosome-linked gene that suppresses breast cancer and represses the HER-2/ErbB2 oncogene. Given the significant role HER-2 plays in

Today's gene hunter  -  Aug 8, 2007
Australian Life Scientist,..."It's an oncogene, so it's amplified in cancers and activates the growth of tumours. About 30 per cent of colorectal cancers have mutations, 30 per cent of

Tumor suppressor gene linked to more aggressive lung cancer  -  Aug 7, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),...of LKB1 in lung cancer, Dr. Sharpless and colleagues examined mice that were genetically engineered to develop mutations driven by the K-ras oncogene.

MolecularMD to join CML Alliance programme  -  Aug 6, 2007
Laboratory Talk,MolecularMD specialises in providing highly sensitive, standardised monitoring of the BCR-ABL oncogene expression by qRT-PCR and has exclusive

Molecular Systems Biology in Drug Development  -  Jul 31, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Oncogene 19, 6550–6565 (2000). | Article | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort | Giaccone, G. HER1/EGFR-targeted agents: predicting the future for patients with

A seamless trespass: germ cell migration across the seminiferous ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
Journal of Cell Biology (subscription)This finding is further supported by increased necl-5 expression during loss of contact inhibition in oncogene-transformed NIH3T3 cell lines (Minami et al.,

Research: Destroying Cancer In Lab Mice  -  Jul 30, 2007
abc7news.com,Jan Van Rigglen, Stanford Researcher: "We switch off the oncogene and the cells in the end die." A mouse they studied went from having cancer cells to none

Liver Tumours – Good & Evil is Decided by Two Signalling Pathways  -  Jul 30, 2007
openPR (press release),...the development of liver cancer was generated during a current project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and has been published in the Journal Oncogene.

Gene therapy using adeno-associated virus linked to liver cancer ...  -  Jul 26, 2007
News from Washington University in St. Louis,But micro RNAs can silence genes by interfering with the action of messenger RNA, and they have recently been linked to oncogene expression and

Learn how to avoid, detect disease that kills 1500 a day  -  Jul 25, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,If the mutation in the gene causes the protein to be activated, that gene is called an oncogene. If the mutation results in a protein that no longer works,

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