The study was led by Neus Agell, professor from the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine of UB and researcher at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS). The first author of the study is Carles Barcel�, PhD Student at the former UB Department. …
What is the function of these genes? Strangely, the factors that are increased in melanoma share a common mechanism: the formation of vesicles called endosomes. Endosomes are machinery that tumor cells, via a process called endocytosis, can use to incorporate components into their environment and obtain energy by degrading them via autodigestion or autophagy…
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The study led by Aleix Prat, Principal Investigator of VHIO´s Translational Genomics Group, in collaboration with José Baselga, Physician-in-Chief of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (USA), has today been published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. The research centers on the fact that not all HER2+ tumors respond in the same way to anti-HER2 targeted therapy…
But there is still a long way to go. The experimental work has been done on cells. Not on mice, let alone on humans. However, a joint piece of research between the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, the MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid ―the Spanish subsidiary of the MD Anderson Cancer Center of Houston (Texas)―, and the National Centre for Oncological Research (CNIO) is suggesting that the study of gene expression in chemoresistant lymphomata could help to identify possible therapeutic targets and open up new channels of treatment. …
Whether it is H1N1, H5N1 or H7N9: The flu virus influenza A exists in many different types as its two coating proteins haemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) can be combined in various ways. Theoretically, more than 100 different pairings are possible. Additionally, the coating proteins themselves can undergo changes. This variability is one of the reasons why the flu vaccination has to be renewed every year…