Synthetic compound triggers cancer cell “suicide”
August 31st, 2006
A synthetic molecule that triggers cancer cells to commit suicide was effective in mouse cancer models, scientists said. They hope the finding will herald in new drugs that can activate this mechanism that causes cancer cells to hasten their own death.? The molecule killed human lung cancer cells and kidney cancer cells in mouse models and may give rise to drugs that can potentially activate the “executioner” mechanism in human cancer cells.