Friday, 1 March 2013

How underground rodent wards off cancer: Second mole rat species has different mechanism for resisting cancer

The team of researchers, led by Professor Vera Gorbunova and Assistant Professor Andrei Seluanov, found that abnormally growing cells in blind mole rats secrete the interferon beta protein, which causes those cells to rapidly die. Seluanov and Gorbunova hope the discovery will eventually help lead to new cancer therapies in humans.
crawled from : Sciencedaily

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