Study may aid efforts to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 10:56 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer...

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