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Pivotal gene in spread of cancer cells identified

Focus Taiwan -- Researchers in Taiwan have identified a key gene that plays a part in a tumor's invasion of body tissues, which they said can help develop new drugs to battle cancer metastasis (more)

Petition Urges White House to Require Public Access to Federally Financed Research

The Chronicle - Building off recent momentum behind their cause, a group of public-access advocates has started a petition asking the Obama administration to require that work supported by taxpayer money be accessible online (more)

Cell migration: Switching to 3D

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology -- Cell migration on two-dimensional (2D) surfaces is well characterized; in the 2D cell migration model, cells repeatedly extend lamellipodia (more)

Protein folding: Sequestration at the IPOD stops division

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology -- Proteins that contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) often form amyloids — β-sheet-rich insoluble fibrous aggregates — and are toxic to cells when expressed at high levels (more)

A Tinier Target for B Cell Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis

Science Translational Medicine -- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive autoimmune disease that attacks the nervous system. Recent work indicates that B cells play a critical role in this disorder, and B cell depletion can help patients with MS (more)

Research and License Agreements between National Cheng Kung University and Novo Nordisk A/S

MarketWatch - A southern Taiwan-based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team led by Ming-Shi Chang, NCKU professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has discovered an anti-interleukin-20 (anti-IL-20) antibody (more)

Clues to a universal flu vaccine found; Swine or H1N1 flu vaccine may protect against more types of flu

New York Daily News - Canadian researchers have found more clues that may help lead to the creation of a universal vaccine against the seasonal flu, according to a study published on Tuesday (more)

Watching risky blood clots form

Nature.com -- Dangerous blood clots form in veins as a result of cross-talk between white blood cells and platelets (more)

Cell cycle: Relaying membrane status

Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. -- Kellogg and colleagues have now elucidated a molecular pathway by which cells sense the delivery of membrane vesicles during yeast bud growth and relay this information (more)

Chk1 : le gène Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde

bulletins-electroniques.com -- Mais tous les gènes suppresseurs de tumeurs n'ont pas que des effets bénéfiques pour notre organisme, comme vient de le montrer une autre étude du même CNIO (more)