All Articles Tagged As: apoptosis

Manipulation of molecule protects intestinal cells from radiation (6/5/2008)

A new study identifies a signaling molecule that plays a major role in radiation-induced intestinal damage ...> Full Article

A promising tumor gene therapeutic target: tMK (5/23/2008)

Midkine (MK), a heparin-binding growth factor, and its truncated form (tMK) are expressed at higher levels in various malignant tumors ...> Full Article

Researchers find key step in programmed cell death (3/6/2008)

The discovery provides insight into how certain proteins, including Hax1, work and how they control the process of apoptosis ...> Full Article

Bak Protein Sets Stressed Cells On Suicide Path (7/18/2007)

When a cell is seriously stressed, say by a heart attack, stroke or cancer, a protein called Bak just may set it up for suicide, researchers have found. ...> Full Article

Scientists Follow Familiar 'TRAIL' To New Cancer Therapy (7/13/2007)

A new study identifies a combination therapy that may sensitize human cancer cells to a promising treatment currently being used in clinical trials. The research, published in the July issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provides a pharmacological method for enhancing the potency and effectiveness of a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) death receptor ligand against a variety of human cancers. ...> Full Article

Cells Re-energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death (6/7/2007)

The discovery of how some abnormal cells can avoid a biochemical program of self-destruction by increasing their energy level and repairing the damage, is giving investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital insights into a key strategy cancer cells use to survive and thrive. ...> Full Article

Preventing Cancer Without Killing Cells (4/2/2007)

Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in EMBO reports. It was previously unknown whether cellular senescence or programmed cell death -- apoptosis -- was the more important safeguard mechanism for suppressing tumours arising from dysfunctional telomeres. ...> Full Article

Ingredient in jalapeno pepper kills cancer cells (1/10/2007)

Researchers with Nottingham University in the UK have discovered that capsaicin, an ingredient of jalapeno peppers, triggers programmed cancer cell death by attacking mitochondria. ...> Full Article

Cancer suicide switch (8/28/2006)

Cancer Researchers from the University of Illinois created a synthetic molecule which caused cancer cells to self-destruct. All cells in the body have a suicide-switch, but unlike healthy cells, cancerous cells seem to ignore the signals that tell a cell to implode. ...> Full Article