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Article: Scientist discovers molecular messengers that rescue cells from death.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- April 16, 2002
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2002 APR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A developing cell in the human body sits on the edge of death. Proteins called Grim, Reaper and Hid stand poised, ready to unleash other toxic proteins. Only if a protein messenger from another cell arrives in time to call off the killing, will the cell then mature into any one of the various types of body cells, such as skin, liver and brain.
But how these protein messengers command cells to survive has remained a mystery until now. For the first time, the entire team of molecular messengers responsible for issuing certain brain cells with orders to survive has been identified by a Rockefeller University scientist ...
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