Zombie Cancer Cells Eat Themselves To Live
Saturday, April 5, 2014 - 17:20
in Health & Medicine
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cell Reports and presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Conference 2014 shows that the cellular process of autophagy in which cells "eat" parts of themselves in times of stress may allow cancer cells to recover and divide rather than die when faced with chemotherapies. read more