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.