Enhancing arrest of cell growth to treat cancer in mice

Monday, February 8, 2010 - 19:28 in Health & Medicine

A team of researchers, led by Pier Paolo Pandolfi, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell growth) and determined a way to enhance it to suppress prostate tumor development and growth in mice.

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