A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...

Mount Sinai researchers, in collaboration with scientists at The Rockefeller University, have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that allows cocaine and morphine to take over natural reward processing ...

Researchers are shedding new light on the link between diet and cancer growth—especially the way certain fats may fuel aggressive forms of breast cancer. A new study has found that linoleic acid, a ...

Do you have a big nose you despise? Or pointy features you find annoying? Well, blame your mother and her late night pregnancy cravings for chocolate ice cream dusted with Flaming Hot Cheetos. A new ...

More critical thinkers generally recognize that these are multifactorial diseases, and interventions must occur at multiple levels and across various fronts. These include medications, lifestyle ...

In a recent study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers conducted clinical studies on murine animals and humans to evaluate the impact of high protein intake on the amino acid-mammalian target ...

Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) senses amino acids to control cell growth, metabolism, and autophagy. Some amino acids signal to mTORC1 through the Rag GTPase, whereas glutamine and ...

Prognostic value of hedgehog signaling in cervical carcinoma. Background: Although improvements in the treatment of ovarian cancer have increased the global prognosis, the metastatic disease is still ...

Genome sequencing revealed that there are approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome. However, one million proteins with distinct functions are predicted in the human proteome. Post ...

A study by the Mildred Scheel Early Career Center group led by Dr. Mohamed Elgendy at the TUD Faculty of Medicine provides ...