For the first time, a new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has described how natural killer (NK) cells in the human body, which can kill and contain viruses and cancerous tumors, can be manipulated by epigenetics. The discovery, detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paves the way for developing more effective cancer drugs. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Nandakumar V, et al. Epigenetic control of natural killer cell maturation by histone H2A deubiquitinase, MYSM1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24062447
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