The protein that keeps cells static is found to play a key role in cell movement

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

Researchers at IRB Barcelona reveal that the protein E-Cadherin is required for groups of diverse cells to migrate together. Tumours with intermediary levels of E-Cadherin generally have a poorer prog...

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Una investigación constata el papel clave de una proteína para entender la enfermedad de Parkinson

by Universidad Católica de Valencia

La alteración de LRRK2 podría, a su vez, alterar determinadas rutas de supervivencia celular que sería la causa de la muerte de las células cerebrales, lo que podría allanar el camino para el des...

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Mechanism identified by which some pathogens regulate the expression of antibiotic resistance genes

by Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB)

“Stimulation and inhibition of transcription is the mechanism used by ω2 to control the copy number, efficient distribution and survival of the plasmid” explains Juan Carlos Alonso, one of the au...

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Key protein in cilia assembly identified

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

The study, published in Current Biology, focuses on cilia, the cellular structures that by sensing chemicals and mechanical forces allow for smelling, hearing, and many other essential functions.

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Desarrollan un nuevo tipo de guisante que facilita la digestión de proteínas

by CSIC - Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Estos estudios podrían ser extendidos a otras proteínas vegetales, que pudieran presentar efectos nutricionales negativos, tales como los alérgenos

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La importancia de la leptina durante el embarazo

by Universidad de Sevilla

Expertos de la Universidad de Sevilla han desarollado un método no invasivo para predecir qué embrión es el que tiene el mayor potencial en los tratamientos de fecundación in vitro

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Tumour suppressor genes curb growth in neighbouring cells

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

Researchers at IRB Barcelona unravel a role for tumour suppressor genes in restricting the growth of neighbouring cell populations. The study, published yesterday in PLoS Biology, might have implicati...

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Attacking bioenergetic metabolism to improve anti-cancer therapies using taxol

by CNIO - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas

A new study has now proven that blocking glycolysis - the molecular mechanism that makes it possible to extract energy from glucose - is especially damaging to the division of cancer cells and that sp...

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Inntags: new tools for innocuous protein tagging

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

A study conducted in collaboration with the CSIC, BSC and UB provides a new approach to follow cellular proteins more closely. The target proteins labelled with inntags do not show detectable alterati...

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A switch for health heart muscle

by Centre for Genomic Regulation

CRG researchers have discovered a protein, called Mel18, that regulates the development of heart muscle. Faults in the production of Mel18 in early cardiac cells may play a role in heart defects

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FAN1, a novel gene for hereditary colon cancer

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

The exhaustive study of one family, followed by the analysis of the gene in a series of more than 175 high-risk families and the functional study of the identified mutations, have proved the causal as...

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Descubren un nuevo mecanismo inmune contra el cáncer

by Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares - CNIC

El equipo dirigido por la Dra. Almudena R Ramiro ha identificado un mecanismo por el cual el sistema inmune es capaz de reconocer células epiteliales que acumulan mutaciones y daño en el DNA, impidi...

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