UT Southwestern scientists identify possible therapy target for aggressive cancer

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:42 in Health & Medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Centre researchers have found that a naturally occurring protein - transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) - which normally suppresses the growth of cancer cells, causes a rebound effect after a prolonged exposure. Cancer cells go into overdrive and become even more aggressive and likely to spread, the researchers report...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net