Waste disposal protein is mechanism behind cancer tumour suppression
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
'Taking out the trash' takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key to cancer tumour suppression in a process known as autophagy. CINJ is a Centre of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School...