Restoring gene for cancer protein p53 slows spread of advanced tumors, biologists find

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

In a new study, cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice with lung cancer has no effect early in tumor development, but restoring the function later on could prevent more advanced tumors from spreading throughout the body.

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