American scientists at northwestern University during a series of experiments came to the conclusion that some RNA molecules are able to run in the cells self-destruct sequence. Continuing research, they figured out how to use this feature of molecules to combat cancer.
The team leader Marcus Peter explains that multicellular organisms are forced to fight cancer for many millions of years, eventually producing his own defense mechanism. Otherwise, according to Peter, people would simply not survived to the present day.
To test his hunch, he took a molecule that kills cancer cells and injected them into mice with ovarian cancer. As a result, the tumor growth decreased significantly, and she could not resist breaking and have not developed resistance.
Discovered in the human genome, the chain is an ancient mechanism for destroying cancer cells. Scientists believe that a new kind of cancer therapy, created on the basis of their research, can be extremely effective, because the result of running the self-destruction mode of the molecules are hurt and killed too many components, necessary for tumor development.
Found able to protect against cancer molecules-suicide
Vyacheslav Larionov