Triple Bioluminescense – Luciferin, Coelenterazine and now Vargulin
Before, beside us, and aboveThe firefly lights his lamp of love.”by Bishop Reginald Heber Bioluminescence is one of the premier tools that scientists have in...
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First there was the iPod, then the iPhone, the iMac and the iPad…now featuring iGLuc!
If you’re anything like me (geek that I am), every new technological device tends to get your blood pumping and invokes an involuntary reflex to...
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Fireflies Light the Way in the Battle Against Cancer
We love looking through published articles and seeing first-hand the amazing results that we are helping scientists achieve all around the world. And we are...
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Neurotrophins
It is a still a commonly held belief that nerve damage can never be healed or repaired sufficiently to regain use. But in recent years...
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EGF, EGFRs and their Role in Cancer
Ever since the beginning of our awareness of growth factors in the early 1960’s by Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor) has...
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Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs)
The Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) were first discovered and named by Marshall Urist in 1965 as a mix of proteins that appeared to be responsible...
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FGF1 Subfamily (FGF1 and FGF2)
The FGF1 subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors was the first of the FGFs to be isolated and identified around 1975 by Gospodarowicz and company. This...
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Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs)
In nature, growth factors are only ever half of the equation. Receptors are proteins which are often found in the plasma membrane of a cell...
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Cytokines and Colony Stimulating Factors
In the ever-evolving world of growth factors, the Cytokine class can potentially encompass nearly every single growth factor we know. Cytokines are typically small, cell-signaling...
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Introduction to Interleukins
The interleukin family of cytokines is one of the largest and most studied of all the growth factors. Their roles in disease, the immune system,...
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FGF7 Subfamily (FGF7, FGF10, FGF22… and sometimes FGF3)
For this Growth Factor Focus week, we want to take a closer look at the FGF7 subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors (FGFs). At GoldBio, we...
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FGF8 Subfamily (FGF-8, FGF-17 and FGF-18)
For this Growth Factor Focus week, we want to take a closer look at the FGF8 subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors. This subfamily comprises of...
