Cancer-promoting protein is vital to safe division of tumor cells

Saturday, December 7, 2013 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have caught a protein they previously implicated in a variety of cancer-promoting roles performing a vital function in cell division, survival and development of brain tumors. PKM2 controls mitosis, saving cancer cells from death and promoting brain tumor growth.

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