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Hippo Pathway Review
MST2/Hippo PathwayMammalian Sterile Twenty (MST) pathways have been identified as a homologue of the ste20 kinase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Creasy and Chernoff 1995). The MST2/Hippo pathway
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18th Dec 2020
Cancer & Tumour Suppressors – Mini Review
Cancer DevelopmentCancer is a group of diseases that involves abnormal cell growth resulting in malignant tumours/ malignant neoplasms. Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity, with 14 million ne
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18th Dec 2020
Inhibiting cell division
Unregulated cell growthCancer, although heterogeneous by its very nature, can be broadly defined as a set of diseases characterised by unregulated cell growth leading to invasion of surrounding
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18th Dec 2020
Phosphatases and PTP1B – Mini review
IntroductionThe human kinome is estimated to contain 518 genes, in comparison to the estimated 180 genes that comprise the phosphatome (Arena et al., 2005). These kinase genes represent a signif
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18th Dec 2020
Spotlight on Mitochondria
Throughout my graduate and postgraduate studies I have been really intrigued and fascinated by the mitochondria, the organelle that keeps all of us running everyday! The more I learn about
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18th Dec 2020
Zebrafish against cretinism and hypotonia
By Natalia Siomava, PhD
Cretinism is a severe medical condition of intellectual disability caused by the deficiency of thyroid hormone (congenital hypothyroi
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18th Dec 2020
Epigenetic modifiication & Histone methylation
Agata Miezaniec PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham, UK
Epigenetics and the link to DNA Methylation
The term ‘Epigenet
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