Sentences with phrase «called tumor gene»

Platyfish have a so - called tumor gene and a regulator to control it, whereas swordtails have neither.

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Predicine has launched a new liquid biopsy panel called PredicineATLAS, which covers 600 genes and offers a readout of patients tumor mutational burden to help inform and assess immuno - oncology treatment.

After EZH2 enzymes rise, their levels taper off, and then, the scientists found two to three-fold increases in a protein called DNMT1, which maintains DNA methylation in the «start» location of a variety of tumor suppressor genes that normally suppress cell growth.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a small RNA molecule called miR - 182 that can suppress cancer - causing genes in mice with glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable type of brain tumor.

The researchers began by investigating a gene called Lgl, which normally suppresses tumor growth.

Only two women in the study had cancer - driving mutations — both in an estrogen receptor gene called ESR1 — in their recurrent tumors not seen in the original.

The approach is already routine for some cancer patients, such as women and men with breast cancer tumors that have high levels of a protein called HER2, or lung cancer tumors with mutations in the EGFR gene.

Up to 90 % of colorectal tumors contain inactivating mutations in a tumor suppressor gene called adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc).

RNA sequencing of both single and clustered CTCs from breast cancer patients identified several genes expressed at elevated levels in CTC clusters, one of which — a protein called plakoglobin — also was overexpressed in the primary tumors of patients with reduced survival.

Lin28 is part of a feedback loop with a tumor - suppressing gene called Let - 7, with each gene keeping the other in check.

Nearly one - third of cases of Wilms tumor, a pediatric cancer of the kidney, are linked to a gene called Lin28, according to research from Boston Children's Hospital.

The researchers conducted genetic tests and found that many of the tumor cells had a mutation in a gene called PPM1D, which causes cells to proliferate and avoid natural death.

A study published in Molecular Cancer Research reveals that a tumor suppressor gene p16 is turned off by a histone mutation (H3.3 K27M), which is found in up to 70 percent of childhood brain tumors called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

The researchers first used yeast to quickly and cheaply screen 169,000 interactions between yeast versions of human tumor - suppressor genes and genes that can be inhibited with drugs, sometimes called «druggable» targets.

Among them: some genes believed to be tumor suppressors turned on or became more active, whereas certain disease - promoting ones, including oncogenes (in the so - called RAS family that are implicated in both prostate and breast cancer), were down - regulated or switched off.

By searching for gene deletion patterns in cancer through a concept the investigators call «synthetic essentiality,» the team identified a synthetic essential gene known as chromatin helicase DNA - binding factor (CHD1) as a therapeutic target for prostate and breast cancers lacking a tumor suppressor gene called phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN).

One of those downregulated genes encodes a tumor suppressor protein called p21.

By performing a genome - wide screen in breast cancer cells, Dr. Oesterreich and her colleagues identified a gene called HOXC10 as one that the cancer seems to modify to allow continued tumor growth in patients whose cancer becomes resistant to traditional therapies.

In humans, a similar protein complex called CSN and its subunit CSN6 is now believed to be a cancer - causing gene that impacts activity of another gene (Myc) tied to tumor growth.

«While we expected to find some mutations in stem cell lines, we were surprised to find that about five percent of the stem cell lines we analyzed had acquired mutations in a tumor - suppressing gene called p53,» said Merkle.

Normally, the VHL gene acts to suppress another gene called tumor necrosis factor alpha or TNF - alpha.

The new combination therapy is indicated for melanoma patients whose tumors express gene mutations called BRAF V600E and V600K.

But the diagnostic test, which checks to see if a patient's tumor carries a mutation in a gene coding for anaplastic lymphoma kinase, called ALK, is just $ 250.

«We note that there are two subgroups of breast tumors by epigenome: one which we have called Epi - Basal, characterized by loss of epigenetic marks causing breakage of chromosomes and the other that we have called Epi - Luminal B, that presents epigenetic inactivation of genes that should protect us from cancer and these altered cells can no longer do it.»

Myc cancer gene empowers tumor cells to relentlessly divide but simultaneously, provokes a cell suicide process called apoptosis.

When researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, examined tumor tissue from the original man with colon cancer who responded to a PD - 1 inhibitor, they found a clue: His tumor had mutations in «mismatch repair» genes, so - called because their encoded proteins fix errors in DNA bases when cells replicate their DNA.

That genetic map led to key insights, such as the link between glioblastoma, the deadliest type of brain tumor, and a gene called BEX1.

They currently have a trial under way at the U-M Health System which tests a two - part gene therapy approach in patients with brain tumors called gliomas in an effort to get the immune system to attack the tumor.

Looking at recent genomic data, Pandolfi and colleagues noticed that another tumor suppressor gene, called PML, tended to be present in localized (non-metastatic) prostate tumors, but was absent in about a third of metastatic prostate tumors.

The new findings, published online in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, show that combining rapamycin with a gene therapy approach enhanced the animals» ability to summon immune cells called CD8 + T cells to kill tumor cells directly.

Radiation oncologist Anna Saran at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment in Rome and colleagues studied mice with a mutation in a gene called Patched that makes them susceptible to brain tumors early in life.

They also learned key details about how genes and the cells immediately surrounding a tumor (also called the tumor microenvironment) affect cancer risk.

The analysis also found that a significant fraction of tumors contained rearrangements and mutations of a gene called PREX2, and experiments confirmed that cancer - associated mutations of PREX2 promoted the growth of human melanoma cells in mice.

TKM - 080301 targets a specific gene called polo - like kinase 1 (PLK1), which codes for a protein involved in tumor cell growth.

In this latter group, they found thirteen gene - environment interactions, also called «genetic loci,» which contribute to the tumor susceptibility when the mouse is exposed to low - dose radiation.

In 2005, Cagan's team created a general fly model of a human thyroid tumor caused by mutations in the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase gene, then screened a panel of drugs including a kinase inhibitor called vandetanib that suppressed the tumor (Cancer Res, 65:3538 - 41, 2005).

Tumors can also be assigned to subgroups on the basis of gene expression: a 50 - gene assay called PAM50 is widely used to classify tumors as one of 4 - 5 «intrinsic» subTumors can also be assigned to subgroups on the basis of gene expression: a 50 - gene assay called PAM50 is widely used to classify tumors as one of 4 - 5 «intrinsic» subtumors as one of 4 - 5 «intrinsic» subtypes.

The researchers discovered a single letter variant located in TP53, a gene known to play a central role in tumor biology and for accumulating so called somatic mutations, during the development of cancer in patients.

These so - called «living drugs» — injected T cells genetically modified to better recognize and kill tumor cells through a perpetual process of cell renewal and expansion — are revolutionizing cancer treatment, with the first two FDA approvals of such gene - altering therapies occurring in just the last two months.

The subpopulation that failed to produce Wnt1 contributed to tumor growth with a mutation in a gene called HRas, which regulates cell division.

When these genes (called tumor suppressor genes) are turned off, MDS cells and cancer cells can grow freely.

In these deadly dispersed tumors, Trotman and his colleagues were surprised to find that a different cancer gene, called Myc, had taken over.

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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The gene called PTEN is one of the most important of the body's natural tumor suppressors.

Wilms» tumor is a childhood kidney cancer caused by the loss or inactivation of a tumor suppressor gene called QT1 on chromosome 11.

Lloyd Trotman's recent research path begins at his discovery some years ago that the loss of a single copy of a master tumor suppressing gene called PTEN is sufficient to permit tumors to develop in animal models of prostate cancer.

He continues to study cancer gene function in his Georgetown lab, and has recently identified a new cancer gene called STAG2 that is among the most commonly mutated genes in cancer, involved in causing bladder cancer, pediatric bone tumors, leukemias, brain tumors, and other tumor types.

Romidepsin (Istodax) and vorinostat (Zolinza) inhibit enzymes called histone deacetylases (HDACs) that tighten the coil around DNA and block expression of tumor suppressor genes.

Scientists are now using high - tech gene sequencing machines in a desperate attempt to save the Tasmanian devil from an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease that is threatening to wipe out the species.