All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Study finds new gene that causes bone cancer Study finds new gene that causes bone cancer 14/10/2020 | 3 MINS A new international study has discovered a gene that allows the stimulation of cancer cells in a type of bone tumour that primarily affects young people during puberty. The global collaboration involved researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Murdoch University and the Perron Institute, Hue University in Vietnam and the University of Tartu in Estonia. Osteosarcoma is a relatively common cancer in adolescents and young adults that peaks at a time of life when growth hormone levels are naturally high. ΓÇ£As cells create new proteins from DNA, the start or end may be changed meaning that the code is misread.ΓÇ¥ Emel Rothzerg The study, published in Experimental Biology and Medicine, found that in osteosarcoma, the moderating effect of the leptin receptor, which is responsible for regulating the effects of growth hormone on cells, is impaired. This allows the growth hormone to stimulate the cancerous cells to gro
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Study finds new gene that causes bone cancer Study finds new gene that causes bone cancer 14/10/2020 | 3 MINS A new international study has discovered a gene that allows the stimulation of cancer cells in a type of bone tumour that primarily affects young people during puberty.
The global collaboration involved researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Murdoch University and the Perron Institute, Hue University in Vietnam and the University of Tartu in Estonia.
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Osteosarcoma is a relatively common cancer in adolescents and young adults that peaks at a time of life when growth hormone levels are naturally high.
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ΓÇ£As cells create new proteins from DNA, the start or end may be changed meaning that the code is misread.ΓÇ¥ Emel Rothzerg The study, published in Experimental Biology and Medicine, found that in osteosarcoma, the moderating effect of the leptin receptor, which is responsible for regulating the effects of growth hormone on cells, is impaired.
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