Breast cancer’s Achilles heel. Reactivating NRG1 in breast tumors may prove crucial in curing the disease. Read how this normally pro-apoptotic gene is silenced in many breast cancers.

Cell deaths remote control. Applying BH3-only proteins affinity for initiating apoptosis could help treat inflammatory diseases. Read how BCL-2 family members like BIK, BAD and PUMA may be crucial in preventing rheumatoid arthritis, heart failure and other diseases in this recent supplement for Oncogene.

Web Focus: Stem Cell Therapy. The vast medical potential and recent advances in embryonic and adult stem cell biology create a further need to better communicate novel findings among the scientific community. Read this multi-journal web focus compiling free articles dedicated to the advancement of stem cell research.

Oncogene Reviews. Mechanizing apoptosis is one of many possible future applications involving PTEN. Read this and other issues of Oncogene Reviews highlighting a broad spectrum of topics including microRNA's, antibody therapies for cancer and FOXO.