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Prostate cancer hijacks tumor cell biorhythm to evade hormone therapy

Scienmag

Hormone therapy is successful at keeping metastatic prostate cancer under control, but eventually the tumor cells become resistant to it. An unexpected potential solution has now emerged in medicines not designed to fight cancer, but to target proteins that regulate a cell’s circadian rhythm.

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Exercise hormone may modulate genes associated with replication of novel coronavirus

Scienmag

Brazilian researchers observed that in uninfected adipocytes, the hormone irisin altered the expression of genes that regulate ACE-2, which encodes a protein to which the virus binds in order to invade human cells.

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New research data on the regulation of hormone-dependent breast cancer

Scienmag

Notch proteins are key regulators of growth and differentiation of both normal and cancer cells. These results can be used in the development of new cancer treatments, especially for hormone-dependent breast cancer.

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Gut hormone triggers craving for more proteins

Scienmag

Revelations from a fly study could improve our understanding of protein malnutrition in humans.

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UK NICE grants approval for breast cancer drug combination

Pharmaceutical Technology

The 'life-extending' drug combination is recommended for usage in adult patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) breast cancer who have previously received hormone therapy. It acts by hindering proteins in cancer cells to avert cell division and growth.

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Genetically modified mice pave the way for customized medicine in a rare disease

Medical Xpress

Ana Guadaño at the Alberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBM, a combined CSIC-UAM center) and involving the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), used CRISPR gene editing techniques to incorporate into mice a mutation of the MCT8 protein responsible for transporting thyroid hormones to the interior of the cell.

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Can the FDA keep the momentum going for rare disease drug approvals?

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2022, the FDA approved only 37 new medicines, an underwhelming number compared to 98 in 2018. The mutation leads to disordered thyroid hormone transport, which causes patients to experience intellectual and motor disabilities. T3 is a major hormone in the blood that regulates thyroid levels.

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