Turning Cancer Friend Into Cancer Foe
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 21:35
in Health & Medicine
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 may lead to new cancer treatments.
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