Image: The finding may offer a new strategy for fighting cancer (Source: iStockphoto)From ABC News (Australia):
Instead of killing off cancer cells with toxic drugs, scientists have discovered a molecular pathway that forces them to grow old and die.
Cancer cells spread and grow because they can divide indefinitely.
But a study in mice, published today in Nature, shows that blocking a cancer-causing gene called Skp2 forces cancer cells to go through an aging process known as senescence - the same process involved in ridding the body of cells damaged by sunlight.
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