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Research identifies a way to make cancer cells more responsive to chemotherapy

Dr. Shawn Li, PhD, and his team at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, identified that a protein called Numb functions to promote the death of cancer cells by binding to and stabilizing a tumor suppressor protein called p53 -a master regulator of cell death. The scientists found when Numb is reduced or methylated by an enzyme called Set8, it will no longer protect p53. …