Sentences with phrase «skin tumor genes»

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In skin tumors the process can start with a change in a single gene, such as H - ras.

Myc is a proto - oncogene or master cancer gene that spurs tumor growth in a variety of cancers including breast, lung, colon, brain, skin, leukemia, prostate, pancreas, stomach and bladder.

«Surprising role of gene regulator protein in development of skin tumors.»

The authors uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms, as well as the gene network regulated by Sox9 during the early steps of skin tumor initiation and demonstrates that Sox9 controls the long term maintenance and expansion of oncogene expressing cells by promoting self - renewing division and inhibiting differentiation.

But now geneticists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, sequenced the DNA of these skin tumors, in order to determine the genes that are responsible for the cancerogenesis.

They've used a gun powered by pressurized helium to fire microscopic gold bullets, coated with genes, into skin cells surrounding tumors in mice.

And when viruses containing the four genes insert themselves into the genomes of skin cells, they can activate innate cancer genes and cause tumors.

The analysis of 278 transposition - induced prostate, breast and skin tumors detected tissue - specific and shared data sets of known and candidate genes involved in cancer.