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Biologists identify a major player in cell growth
February 27th, 2007
When cells go about the business of dividing, they can get sidelined. Maybe there aren't enough nutrients. Maybe there aren't the right signals to resume multiplying. Either way, cells go quiet. What can restart cell division - the process that drives the development of embryos, the renewal of hair, skin and blood, and the creation of cancer - is a single transcription factor called GABP, according to new research from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. The work, published Nature Cell Biology, introduces a new pathway that can be manipulated to control cell growth. Since cell growth is a fundamental...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-02-27)
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