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Newly-Identified RNA Sequence Is Key In MicroRNA Processing

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center have identified an RNA sequence that promotes increased numbers of specific microRNAs (miRNAs), molecules that regulate cell...

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MIT Researchers Engineer Microbes For Low-Cost Production Of Anticancer Drug...

MIT researchers and collaborators from Tufts University have now engineered E. coli bacteria to produce large quantities of a critical compound that is a precursor to the cancer drug Taxol, originally...

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Bioelectrical Signals Turn Stem Cells’ Progeny Cancerous

Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered that a change in membrane voltage in newly identified “instructor cells” can cause stem cells’ descendants to trigger...

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Research Could Accelerate Discovery Of New Drugs To Treat Difficult Diseases...

Joshua Kritzer, assistant professor in the School of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry at Tufts University, has been awarded one of 33 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards, one of the most...

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Of 50,000 Small Molecules Tested To Fight Cancer, Two Show Promise

A class of compounds that interferes with cell signaling pathways may provide a new approach to cancer treatment, according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National...

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