Month: January 2015

Over 85% of kidney and renal pelvis cancers are renal cell carcinomas (RCC); a disease with multiple subtypes including clear cell, papillary, chromophobe and oncocytomic. The variable nature of RCC makes one blanket treatment impossible, and therefore targeted therapies may be more effective at enhancing survival. A recent review from Randall et al., (2014) summarises … Read more

Folliculin (FLCN) and the associated folliculin-interacting proteins FNIP1 and FNIP2 have been shown to play a role in cell metabolism through regulation of the AMPK-mTOR pathways. Previously Hasumi et al. (2012) reported that selective deletion of Flcn in mouse skeletal muscle resulted in an increase in mitochondrial biogenesis and muscle fibre specification (discussed in this … Read more