Protein protects cancer cells from oxidative stress

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 12:32 in Health & Medicine

High levels of a protein called thioredoxin-like 2 helps protect cancer cells from the oxidative stress that they generate as they grow and invade tissues throughout the body, said a consortium of researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation .

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