Turning Silenced Cancer Genes Back Into Fighters

ENN
Apr 15, 2019, 3:33 pm186 pts
Working with human colon cancer cells and mice, researchers led by experts at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have successfully blocked the activity of portions of a protein known as UHRF1 and restored the function of hundreds of cancer-fighting genes that became “misregulated” by the disease.

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