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Researchers at Osaka University show that intercellular communication via extracellular vesicles from bone-making osteoblasts is a key factor for the switch from bone formation to resorption through a microRNA-mediated mechanism. Osteoblasts act in a group to make bone over the course of several months. However, how osteoblasts cooperate with each […]

Researchers from Osaka University find a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a cancer-specific surface antigen in a ubiquitous protein with exciting therapeutic potential. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a largely incurable cancer of plasma cells with an extremely poor prognosis. However, investigators from Japan have recently found that a common component of […]

Researchers from Osaka University show that activation of a protein called MondoA can protect against age-related diseases and cellular changes associated with aging. A step toward discovering the fountain of youth could involve protecting against the inevitable accumulation of “senescent” cells associated with aging and age-related diseases. Now, researchers from […]

One of the important areas of cancer research and development that appears to receive a great deal of attention and funding, but in practice seems slow to make it from the laboratory to the clinic, is the targeting of therapeutics to cancerous cells. Reductio ad absurdum, near any of dozens […]