Researchers turn cancer friend into cancer foe
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer cell killer. The research, which was published as the featured article in the October 7 edition of Cancer Cell, may lead to new cancer treatments.
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