Stabilizing cancer-fighting p53 can also shield a metastasis-promoter
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:14
in Health & Medicine
Efforts to protect the tumor-suppressor p53 could just as easily shelter a mutant version of the protein, causing cancer cells to thrive and spread rather than die, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported in the current issue of the journal Genes and Development.