Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have discovered a way to activate the body’s anti-cancer ability through suppression of a specific protein, contributing to the fight against the deadly disease.
Studies on mice found that by inhibiting Smad3, a protein that stifles cells in the body’s immune system called Natural Killer cells, cancer tumours could be greatly reduced.
This may give scientists a new approach to developing anti-cancer drugs for humans in the future...
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