Researchers discover antitumor molecule that originated within oncogene
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
A common point in all human tumors is that they produce an activation of oncogenes, genes that cause cancer and they also cause a loss of function of the protective genes, called anti-oncogenes or tumour suppressor genes. Normally both categories of anticancer and procancer genes are in different regions of our chromosomes.