MIT biologists find that restoring the gene for cancer protein p53 slows spread of advanced tumours

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 12:50 in Biology & Nature

In a new study to be published in the Nov. 25 issue of Nature, MIT cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice with lung cancer has no effect early in tumour development, but restoring the function later on could prevent more advanced tumours from spreading throughout the body...

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