Research Snapshot: Discovery points to new avenues to kill aggressive cancer cells
Vanderbilt faculty and researchers are looking for the “Achilles’ heel” of the cancer cells that survive initial chemotherapy. Michael King, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Joshua D. Greenlee, graduate research fellow in biomedical engineering, are investigating whether a naturally occurring protein made in immune cells, called TRAIL, is effective in killing colon cancer cells.
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