Waste disposal protein is mechanism behind cancer tumor suppression
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
New Brunswick, N.J. -- "Taking out the trash" takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key to cancer tumor suppression in a process known as autophagy. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.