Cancer
Richard Silverman to speak at ASBMB 2025
Richard Silverman and Melissa Moore are the featured speakers at the ASBMB annual meeting to be held April 12-15 in Chicago.
From the Journals: JBC
How cells recover from stress. Cancer cells need cysteine to proliferate. Method to make small membrane proteins. Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
ASBMB names 2025 JBC/Tabor Award winners
The six awardees are first authors of outstanding papers published in 2024 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Pan-kinase inhibitor for head and neck cancer enters clinical trials
A drug targeting the scaffolding function of multiple related kinases halts tumor progression.
Dancing cancer
A molecular biologist and a choreographer describe how they came to work together.
Elucidating how chemotherapy induces neurotoxicity
Andre Nussenzweig will receive the Bert and Natalie Vallee Award at the 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.
From receptor research to cancer drug development: The impact of RTKs
Joseph Schlessinger will receive the ASBMB Herbert Tabor Research Award at the 2025 ASBMB Annual meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.
Gene-mutation pathway discovery paves way for targeted blood cancers therapies
A new study by researchers at the universities of Texas and Chicago explains the enzymatic activity that’s needed for tumor suppression in leukemias and other cancers.
Cholesterol synthesis and cancer
Researchers find that the active form of a key cholesterol synthesis enzyme is upregulated in endometrial cancer tissues.