A Rutgers biochemistry professor explains how omega-6 fatty acids found in Western diets can activate cellular growth ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a key pathway controlling tumor growth in B-cell lymphomas ... assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, who was senior author ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

In multicellular organisms, growth factors ... bind to signaling molecules outside the cell and subsequently transmit the signal through a sequence of molecular switches to internal signaling ...

A recent study has unveiled the critical roles of two transcription factors, MAFB and CEBPA, in the development of hypospadias, a common congenital malformation affecting male urethral development.

Research has given us more molecular insights on how estrogen ... Anchorage independent growth: Tumor cells in ER+/PR+ cancers are more likely to grow outside of normal tissue structure, a ...

Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem cell growth and phenotype in tumor progression, metastasis, and response to therapy. Christine Mayr, MD, PhD Molecular and cell biologist ...

Estela Jacinto, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been studying a crucial pathway for human cell growth and metabolism for more than ...