Cancer cell ‘executioner’ found
Posted on August 28, 2006 Comments (0)
Cancer cell ‘executioner’ found:
Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells.
The University of Illinois team created a synthetic molecule which caused cancer cells to self-destruct.
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They found the molecule PAC-1 did trigger the transformation, and cancer cells from mice and from human tumours could be prompted to self-destruct – a process called apoptosis.
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