Key piece to cancer cell survival puzzle found

Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

A key mystery in cancer research has been solved by an international team of researchers who asked: What allows some malignant cells to circumvent the normal process of cell death that occurs when chromosomes get too old to maintain themselves properly? Researchers have identified a specific gene that human cells require in order to survive these types of defects.

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