An Achilles heel in cancer cells

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 06:01 in Biology & Nature

A protein that shields tumour cells from cell death and exerts resistance to chemotherapy has an Achilles heel, a vulnerability that can be exploited to target and kill the very tumour cells it usually protects, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago show in a new study published in the 9 December issue of Cancer Cell...

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