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IMAGE: A montage of microscopic images that show the stages of the cell cycle, in which a single cell duplicates its DNA and eventually divides into two "daughter " cells. Staining shows...
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Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology/SciLifeLab
With the hope of contributing to the fight against cancer, researchers in Sweden have published a new molecular mapping of proteins that regulate the cell division process - identifying 300 such proteins.
The release of the data, which was published today in the scientific journal,
Nature, is significant because it helps bring medical research closer to the point of being able to target specific proteins to treat cancer.