Newly synthesized fungal compound can switch on a self-destruct button for cancer

Thursday, June 11, 2020 - 13:21 in Biology & Nature

Cancers cells use a special technique to propagate; they delete their 'programmed death' gene through mutation, 'forget' to die when their lifetime is over, and continue to grow instead. A research team has developed a method through which a fungal compound capable of rearming the self-destruct gene in certain cancer cells can be artificially produced in marketable quantities, providing a potential cancer therapeutic strategy.

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