A newly discovered gene switch may help turn chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer into a treatable disease.

Erk Russell had rare and extraordinary leadership skills. Across the Southeast and beyond, there are hundreds of football players who would quickly attest to that. He had remarkable instincts with an ...

One-fifth of patients in a phase 1 study responded to an investigational ERK inhibitor from Merck, bolstering hopes that this type of drug could be used effectively in combination with other cancer ...

Scientists have identified a crucial molecular switch that decides whether pancreatic cancer cells resist chemotherapy or respond to it. The key player, a gene called GATA6, keeps tumours in a more ...

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have identified a molecular switch controlled by the protein GATA6 that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells respond to chemotherapy or become resistant.

Why do some animals regenerate lost tissues after injury while others don’t? Researchers from the lab of Kerstin Bartscherer (Osnabrück University and formerly Hubrecht Institute) and Ashley Seifert ...

It has been brought to my attention that the Georgia Southern University athletic department is putting together a video "loop" of remembering Erk Russell by those who knew the man across his years at ...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent a diverse group of signaling proteins and are involved in a wide variety of physiological processes. Of particular importance to the pharmaceutical ...