"When we brought the photographs to the surface we found all this growth on them -- it's a third dimension on top, " Franke said.
The firm was founded in the early 1990s by several academic researchers, including Axel Ullrichof Germany's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, who had been studying receptors on the surface of cells that receive growth signals from other parts of the body.
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The Novartis drug suppresses a protein called MTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), which receives incoming growth signals from the surface of the cell and directs them to grow fatter, a necessary step before cell division.
With labour costs still a small fraction of the euro area's, the prospects for growth look good on the surface.
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Everyone appears to be in aggressive growth mode, on the surface, anyway.
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"There are ample supplies beneath the surface of the planet to have significant growth in oil supply for quite a number of years, " Yergin says.
Self-seeding may explain why large tumors tend to grow (in percentage terms) more slowly than small tumors: It could be that growth is a function of surface area rather than volume.
Nicknamed "The Builder Prince" he began to transform Monaco as early as the 1950s, reclaiming land that added 20% growth to the principality's surface area, encouraging large construction projects and supported economic diversification.
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When you really think about economic growth, what first might appear mysterious on the surface quickly becomes easy to understand.
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The growth of the tablet market may someday exceed PCs, so that has only scratched the surface.
Once in a fish's brain, this parasite pumps out powerful molecular signals, known as fibroblast growth factors, that cause the fish to shimmy, jerk and dart to the water's surface.
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