New molecule links asthma, cancer; could aid in developing new treatments
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A newly discovered molecule provides a new drug target for controlling both asthma-induced muscle thickening and cancerous tumor growth. This molecule, called "microRNA-10a," normally helps genes produce proteins or make copies of themselves, also play an important role in the growth or overgrowth of human airway smooth muscle cells and some forms of cancer.