Science

Remember how Ras is a frequently mutated oncogene in solid tumors? Well, it turns out Ras plays a role in those memories, too. In the Jan. 13, 2020, online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Juniper, Fla., reported on the discovery that Ras signals through Raf and then Rho kinase to control whether memory is short- or long-term.

The long and short of it

Oncogene Ras affects memory consolidation

January 17, 2020

By W. Todd Penberthy

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Remember how Ras is a frequently mutated oncogene in solid tumors? Well, it turns out Ras plays a role in those memories, too. In the Jan. 13, 2020, online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Juniper, Fla., reported on the discovery that Ras signals through Raf and then Rho kinase to control whether memory is short or long-term.

Bench Press for Jan. 17, 2020

January 17, 2020

By Anette Breindl

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Scientists at the Whitehead Institute have discovered that the ability of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii to cause chronic infections depends on changes orchestrated by a single transcription factor, Bradyzoite-formation deficient 1 (BFD1).

BioWorld MedTech’s Neurology Extra for Jan. 17, 2020

January 17, 2020

By Andrea Applegate

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology.

BioWorld MedTech’s Diagnostics Extra for Jan. 16, 2020

January 16, 2020

By Meg Bryant and Anette Breindl

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics.

BioWorld MedTech’s Orthopedics Extra for Jan. 15, 2020

January 15, 2020

By Holland Johnson

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Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics.

You’ve come a long way, baby

Lung cancer treatment options much improved, but resistance remains

January 15, 2020

By Anette Breindl

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It is equally fair to say that lung cancer treatment has come a long way, and that it has a long way to go. Speaking at a joint conference by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the American Association for Cancer Research on lung cancer translational research, William Pao remembered the stark realities of being an oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center just 20 years ago, when the main lung cancer “procedure” done by trainees was to get a DNR, or do-not-resuscitate order, from their patients.