Open AccessDriving Glioblastoma to Drink
Author(s) -
Richard J. Gilbertson
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2014.03.034
Subject(s) - biology , glioblastoma , brain cancer , mechanism (biology) , phenotype , disease , cancer , cancer research , bioinformatics , genetics , gene , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
Attempts to treat cancer with drugs that target mutated proteins have met with mixed success. By screening for compounds that alter the phenotype of glioblastoma cells-an aggressive brain tumor-Kitambi et al. identify a potential new treatment of the disease and shed light on an unusual cell death mechanism.
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