Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cancer Cell's 'Self Eating' Tactic May Be Its Weakness
July 01, 2019
July 01, 2019
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, July 1 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:
Cancer cells use a bizarre strategy to reproduce in a tumor's low-energy environment; they mutilate their own mitochondria! Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) also know how this occurs, offering a promising new target for pancreatic cancer therapies.
Why would a cancer cell want to destroy its own functioning mitochondria? "It may seem pretty counte . . .
Cancer cells use a bizarre strategy to reproduce in a tumor's low-energy environment; they mutilate their own mitochondria! Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) also know how this occurs, offering a promising new target for pancreatic cancer therapies.
Why would a cancer cell want to destroy its own functioning mitochondria? "It may seem pretty counte . . .