Tumor Environment Determines Whether The Cellular Process Autophagy Enables Cancer Cells To Live Or Die
Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 20:22
in Biology & Nature
Confusingly, the cellular process autophagy (essentially self-eating) has been implicated in both cancer cell death and survival. New insight into this paradox has now been provided by work which indicates that the context in which the process occurs determines the outcome.