Achilles Heel Found In Cancer Cells
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
A protein that shields tumor cells from cell death and exerts resistance to chemotherapy has an Achilles heel, a vulnerability that can be exploited to target and kill the very tumor cells it usually protects, according to an article in Cancer Cell.
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