Blocking proteins coded by notorious cancer-causing gene

Ovarian cancer cells are 'addicted' to a family of proteins produced by the notorious oncogene, MYC. Blocking these Myc proteins halts cell proliferation in the deadliest cancer of the female reproductive system, according to a presentation by University of California, Berkeley scientists at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, 13-17 December 2008 in San Francisco...

Read the whole article on

More from