News articles tagged with 'caspase'
Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases
— 10 Mar 2011 18:56 | HealthNeurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are partly attributable to brain inflammation. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet in Sweden…
Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
— 4 Mar 2011 16:00 | HealthAn enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine…
Protein identified that serves as a switch in a key pathway of programmed cell death
— 3 Mar 2011 13:29 | HealthWork led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists identified how cells flip a switch between cell survival and cell death that involves a protein called FLIP…
Researchers identify protein that fights West Nile virus
— 5 Sep 2010 17:38 | HealthYale and McGill University scientists have identified a protein that is critical in fighting mosquito-borne West Nile Virus in mice. This finding could have therapeutic implications…
How proteins talk to each other
— 22 Sep 2009 13:09 | HealthInvestigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have identified novel cleavage sites for the enzyme caspase-3 (an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves target proteins).…
Fluorescent probes may permit monitoring of chemotherapy effectiveness
— 14 Jul 2009 15:31 | HealthGoing out like a brilliant flame is one way to get attention. If physicians could watch tumour cells committing a form of programmed suicide called apoptosis, a desired effect of workhorse…
UC San Diego biologists discover a protein link to wound healing
— 25 Mar 2009 18:00 | HealthDiabetes and eczema may appear to be two completely unrelated diseases. But UC San Diego biologists have uncovered what appears to be a crucial biochemical link between the two. The…
Common anaesthetic induces Alzheimer's-associated changes in mouse brains
— 13 Nov 2008 17:57 | HealthFor the first time researchers have shown that a commonly used anaesthetic can produce changes associated with Alzheimer's disease in the brains of living mammals, confirming previous…
A protein that saves cells from death may become a new star in cancer therapy
— 16 Aug 2008 13:02 | HealthWhen a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. Now, in research to appear in the 15 August…
Study shows methadone breaks resistance in untreatable forms of leukaemia
— 1 Aug 2008 19:18 | HealthResearchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing power against leukaemia cells, including treatment resistant…