Study may aid efforts to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer.