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Protein Preps Cells to Survive Stress of Cancer Growth and Chemotherapy
Scientists have uncovered a survival mechanism that occurs in breast cells that have just turned premalignant-cells on the cusp between normalcy and cancers-which may lead to new methods of stopping tumors.
5/22/2013 5:05 PM EDT
Timing of Cancer Radiation Therapy May Minimize Hair Loss, Researchers Say
Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock - a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair - researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy might be minimized if these treatments are...
5/20/2013 2:00 PM EDT
Salk Scientists Develop Drug That Slows Alzheimer's in Mice
A drug developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, known as J147, reverses memory deficits and slows Alzheimer's disease in aged mice following short-term treatment. The findings, published May 14 in the journal Alzheimer's...
5/13/2013 1:30 PM EDT
Salk Researchers Chart Epigenomics of Stem Cells That Mimic Early Human Development
Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as “epigenetics” play a critical role in human development, but they did not know precisely how alterations in this extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA contribute...
5/9/2013 12:00 PM EDT
Salk Scientists Find Potential Therapeutic Target for Cushing's Disease
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a development that may give clinicians a therapeutic target to treat this potentially...
5/7/2013 3:30 PM EDT
Smoke Signals: How Burning Plants Tell Seeds to Rise From the Ashes
In the spring following a forest fire, trees that survived the blaze explode in new growth and plants sprout in abundance from the scorched earth. For centuries, it was a mystery how seeds, some long dormant in the soil, knew to push through the...
4/29/2013 4:50 PM EDT
Salk Scientist Terrence Sejnowski Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Salk researcher Terrence J. Sejnowski professor and head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinction awarded annually to global leaders in business, government,...
4/25/2013 2:30 PM EDT
Sunshine Hormone, Vitamin D, May Offer Hope for Treating Liver Fibrosis
Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury leading to fibrosis include chronic hepatitis virus...
4/25/2013 2:00 PM EDT