Cancer-causing protein can also help fight the tumors it causes

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

Oncogenes are genes that when mutated or expressed in high concentrations can cause normal cells to become cancerous. Now research from Tel Aviv University is demonstrating that Ras, one of the first oncogenes discovered, has the power to heal as well as harm.

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