'Mahjong' gene is key player when cancer, normal cells compete

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 21:07 in Biology & Nature

A landmark study by Florida State University biologists, in collaboration with scientists in Britain, is the first to identify a life-or-death "cell competition" process in mammalian tissue that suppresses cancer by causing cancerous cells to kill themselves.

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