SIRT6 ability to suppress cancer cell growth is explained
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 06:32
in Health & Medicine
For several years, scientists have known that SIRT6 – one of seven sirtuins, a family of mammalian proteins with important biological functions, including promoting longer, healthier life – is a tumor suppressor. It has been studied in many different types of cancer, but the reasons for its tumor-suppression ability haven't been understood.