Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death

Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers have discovered. The finding could shift drug discovery efforts, by leading scientists to rethink how proposed anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs that target the enzyme, called caspase 8, are supposed to work.

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