Research team discovers protein’s ability to help and hinder cancer
By Cristy Lytal
Can the same gene prevent and promote cancer? When it comes to liver cancer, the gene that codes for P53, a protein found in humans and many other animals, can indeed do both.
In a pair of articles published in Oncogene and the Journal of Hepatology, Qi-Long Ying, PhD, associate professor of cell and neurobiology at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, and a team of researchers revealed that P53 can both help and harm a liver exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. … Read More »