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Researchers explore the possibility of treating lung cancer by targeting telomeres

Healthy cells can only divide a limited number of times during an organism's lifetime. In contrast, tumor cells are immortal: they proliferate indefinitely and uncontrollably, and this is the defining characteristic of cancer.
Danielle Ellis Maria Blasco Spanish Association Against Cancer Spanish National Research Council Telomerase Group Spanish National Cancer Research Center

Targeting telomeres might be an effective the

โ€ข Telomeres are the structures that protect the ends of chromosomes. The ability of tumor cells to continue dividing indefinitely, as if they were immortal, depends on telomeres โ€ข When telomeres are damaged, lung cancer cells lose the ability to divide and the tumor shrinks, new results show โ€ข Targeting telomeres aims at "taking immortality away from cancer cells," says Maria Blasco, senior author of the paper
Maria Blasco Salud Carlos Blasco Lab Spanish National Cancer Research Center Severo Ochoa Centre Of Excellence Method Of Research

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