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Blocking key immune gene shown to shrink pancreatic tumors
Original: Researchers have demonstrated that blocking a specific innate immune system gene, which produces the inflammasome adapto
Researchers have shown that blocking a gene that produces ASC, an adaptor protein of the innate immune system's inflammasome, can significantly reduce the formation of pancreatic cancer tumors. The finding points to inflammasome signaling as a driver of tumor growth and suggests a possible new target for pancreatic cancer treatment, one of the hardest cancers to treat.
Why now: A potential new therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer, a disease with very poor survival rates, offers real hope.
ASC proteininflammasomepancreatic cancer
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