Thursday, June 11, 2020

Newly synthesized fungal compound can switch on a self-destruct button for cancer

Cancers cells use a special technique to propagate; they delete their 'programmed death' gene through mutation, 'forget' to die when their lifetime is over, and continue to grow instead. A research team has developed a method through which a fungal compound capable of rearming the self-destruct gene in certain cancer cells can be artificially produced in marketable quantities, providing a potential cancer therapeutic strategy.

from Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200610135103.htm

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