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...Beth Israel researchers showed that one desmosomal protein??plakoglobin—turned up in lower quantities in the tissues of ARCV patients...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Test May Identify Deadly Cardiovascular Disease | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...area],” so the protein is “recruited from its normal site to fix the damage, and then once it is done it goes back to its site,” Oberdoerffer said. While the protein is fixing the damaged cells, the genes in the protein??s normal site go unregulated. More problematically, when a cell is permanently damaged, the protein is permanently engaged at the place of the damage in a futile attempt to fix the problem. As a result, the protein never returns to its normal site. Without the protein to regulate...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gene May Hold Anti-Aging Secret | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...finishing touches on an invention that could revolutionize the process of detecting and monitoring diseases such as cancer.Lieber explains in an e-mail that his device consists of several hundred silicon wires, each measuring only around 10 nanometers in diameter, each containing a receptor for a specific protein??for instance, a cancer marker.The new detector allows for real-time monitoring of blood, saliva, and urine using as little as one drop, whereas current detection involves sending several milliliter samples to a lab and waiting several days for results, Lieber says.Lieber says he believes the device is ready...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revolution in the Labs | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...found that [the protein??s] expression changes in cancer cells,” she said, a potentially beneficial finding she hopes to research next year as a Health Sciences Technology student at Harvard Medical School...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoopes Prize Winners Announced | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

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