Scientists develop a new way to fight cancer
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Last Update: 2020-06-08
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Recently, University College London published a study that said that some genes that have a "suppressive" effect on tumours are often "shut off" by cancer cells, and the newly discovered methods can reactivate them to fight the tumorSome genes can block tumor growth in an active state, but cancer cells often use a protein called PRC2 to suppress the effects of these genes and "shut them down."In a paper published in the British journal Nature Structureand and Molecular Biology, researchers at University College London and others said they found that if RNA was "bound" to the protein PRC2, it would not be able to "shut down" the geneIn the experiment, the researchers first cultured cells in tumor tissue, in which the role of the above-mentioned genes has been inhibited by the protein PRC2, but after using technology to "bind" RNA to the protein, the protein leaves the gene, which reactivates the ability to suppress cancer cellsProfessor Richard Jenner, of University College London, said the next step would be to test what types of cancer the method could be used in the hope of developing new cancer treatments
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