Researchers Seek To Exploit Self-Cannibalizing Cancer Cells
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
A team of scientists from Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are attempting to unravel the secret lives of cancer cells that go dormant and self-cannibalize to survive periods of stress, a process called autophagy. The work may help produce new cancer therapies to stem changes that render cancer cells dangerous and resistant to treatment. read more