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

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