Unlocking Brain Cancer (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Unlocking Brain Cancer

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Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered how a protein helps glioblastoma proliferates so quickly and how to turn off this engine of tumor growth using a peptide called NBD. A tumor in an untreated mouse brain (left) grew much more than a tumor treated with the NBD peptide (right).

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