'Destruct' triggers may be jammed in tumor cells, UF geneticists say

Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 10:14 in Biology & Nature

Tumor cells living in the cross hairs of radiation or chemotherapy may be able to escape death because their self-destruct mechanisms are jammed, say University of Florida scientists writing in a recent issue of Developmental Cell.

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