Thursday 9 May 2013

Duke researchers describe how breast cancer cells acquire drug resistance

A seven-year quest to understand how breast cancer cells resist treatment with the targeted therapy lapatinib has revealed a previously unknown molecular network that regulates cell death. The discovery provides new avenues to overcome drug resistance, according to researchers at Duke Cancer Institute. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Kurokawa M, et al. A Network of Substrates of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligases MDM2 and HUWE1 Control Apoptosis Independently of p53. Sci Signal. 2013 May 7;6(274):ra32. PMID: 23652204

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