New strategy directly activates cellular 'death protein'
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center have devised a strategy to directly activate a natural "death" protein, triggering the self-destruction of cells. They say the development could represent a new paradigm for designing cancer drugs.
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