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Searchresult: Balance of Formation of New Blood Vessels Determines MalignancyBalance of Formation of New Blood Vessels Determines Malignancy Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 31.07.2007
Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have shown how the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) is regulated by a network of hundreds of…
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Searchresult: Pure Chance or Is There a System? Computer Program to Uncover Non-Randomness in Genome Sequence DistributionPure Chance or Is There a System? Computer Program to Uncover Non-Randomness in Genome Sequence Distribution Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 05.07.2007
For some years now, scientists throughout the world have been in a position to use the complete base sequence of the human genome for their analyses. A question often encountered is whether or not…
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Searchresult: Cell Division Leads to Death: New Working Principle in Cancer TreatmentCell Division Leads to Death: New Working Principle in Cancer Treatment Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 02.07.2007
Due to defects in chromosomal distribution, a majority of tumor cells would not be able to survive were it not for a trick that cancer cells have developed to avoid this chaos in the genetic…
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Searchresult: Not a Relay Race, but a Team Game: New Model for Signal Transduction in CellsNot a Relay Race, but a Team Game: New Model for Signal Transduction in Cells Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 26.06.2007
Among the key communication systems within a cell is the Wnt signaling pathway, which regulates embryonic development and whose deregulation can also contribute to cancer development. Scientists at…
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Searchresult: Gadd45a Wakes Sleeping Genes
Last update: : 06.02.2007
For several years now, cancer researchers have been studying a mechanism that contributes to the development of malignant tumors: The cell attaches small molecules containing a carbon atom, called…
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Searchresult: Multiplied Risks of Second Breast Cancer
Last update: : 01.02.2007
Breast cancer patients, whose direct relatives (mother or sister) are also affected by the disease, have a particularly high risk of developing a second breast cancer of independent origin.…
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Searchresult: New Method for Detecting Antibiotic Resistance: Mutations Emit Light SignalsNew Method for Detecting Antibiotic Resistance: Mutations Emit Light Signals Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 27.11.2006
The exchange of a single gene building block in the genetic material of the tuberculosis bacterium leads to resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center…
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Searchresult: Genetic Test Determines Aggressiveness of Neuroblastomas
Last update: : 08.11.2006
Neuroblastoma is among the types of cancer that particularly often affect children. Between one and three girls and boys in 100,000 are diagnosed with this growth of the nervous system before age 14.…
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Searchresult: Fertile? Not Without the Brain
Last update: : 19.10.2006
There are many causes of infertility. The fact that nerve cells can also play a role is little known. The hormone estrogen regulates the activity of neurons that give the starting signal for…
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Searchresult: 30 Years of Meyenburg Foundation - 30 Years of Commitment for Cancer Research30 Years of Meyenburg Foundation - 30 Years of Commitment for Cancer Research Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 17.10.2006
The Award Winner 2006 “The cell’s fountain of youth“, but also “Achilles’ heel of the tumor“ - this is how the telomerase enzyme was dubbed by the press. Professor Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn,…
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