by Garth Sundem | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Think of energy metabolism like a party popper: Ripping something apart releases a bang. Most of your cells rip apart sugar to release the “bang” of energy. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer Cell shows that cancer stem...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
The HER2 gene is a well-known driver of breast cancer, where changes in this gene are found in about 1-in-5 cases of the disease. HER2 also contributes to about 3 percent of lung cancers, representing about 6,500 patients per year. But while drugs like trastuzumab and...
by Taylor Abarca | Oct 24, 2018 | Featured, Research
You are probably familiar with the images of sea creatures washing up on shore with bellies full of plastic material. Now, it seems humans may be facing a similar situation. A new study released by researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 24, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that most cancer cells have found ways to remove this “finger” – commonly, by breaking the action of a gene called p53 that puts the BH3 finger in motion. Now think of...
by Taylor Abarca | Oct 22, 2018 | Featured, Research
If colon cancer is caught in its early stages, patients typically have a good chance of living five years past diagnosis, and beyond. However, for patients with late-stage, metastatic colon cancer, the chance drops dramatically, to a five-year survival rate of only...
by Garth Sundem | Oct 12, 2018 | Latest News, Research
CDK1 is a “normal” protein – its presence drives cells through the cycle of replication. And MHC Class I molecules are “normal” as well – they present bits of proteins on the surfaces of cells for examination by the immune system. But a University of Colorado Cancer...
