08
05
2015
Total global spending on cancer medicines reached the $100 billion mark last year, as patients and doctors embraced earlier diagnosis and more effective therapies requiring longer treatment durations, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics said today in a report.
08
05
2015
Australian scientists say they have shown that a specific gene determines the development and function of important cells that bridge the gap between our fast-acting innate and slower-acting adaptive, immune systems.
08
04
2015
Think of an especially active, hands-on orchestra conductor who shuns the podium, roams the orchestra pit, and urges principle musicians from diverse ensembles to play together and realize the score. That’s roughly what happens during stem cell development, except the conductor is a single “master” growth factor receptor, the orchestra pit is the nucleus, the principal musicians and instrumental ensembles are promoters and transcription factors, and the score is, well, ontogenesis itself.
08
04
2015
One of the main roadblocks that have stymied researchers’ attempts at generating an effective HIV vaccine is somehow managing to get antibodies and other immune cells to attack the appropriate targets that are practically hermetically sealed within the virus.
08
03
2015
During evolution and development of a species, the replication of the organism’s genome can lead to a duplication of certain genes that evolve new functions. These so-called paralogs are found throughout the genome of humans, as well as other organisms, and are associated with a variety of cellular processes.
