Singapore scientists exploit knowledge of p53 for increasing specificity of cancer treatments

Monday, May 24, 2010 - 08:51 in Biology & Nature

Researchers from the p53 Laboratory of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have made a finding that makes feasible a unique method of cancer treatment. Their work, published online in the leading journal Cell Death and Differentiation today , offers new insight on how to tap on the properties of p53, the 'guardian of the genome' , to more effectively kill cancer cells while sparing normal cells.

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