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Can plant research lead to new insights in cancer research?

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Can plant research lead to new insights in cancer research?

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Ghent, Belgium – The development of cancer is a complex process with a number of different causes. The root problem is loss of control in the cell division process. A fundamental biological process, cell division can be studied in many organisms. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected with Ghent University are studying cell division in plants and thereby uncovering general principles. They are now revealing the importance of the DEL1 protein in the control of cell division in the Arabidopsis plant. The scientists suspect that the human variant of this protein, E2F7, performs the same essential function in human cells. Their research is bringing to light a potentially new class of genes that can suppress the growth of tumors. Loss of control… Our body is constructed of cells that contain the hereditary material (DNA) distributed among chromosomes – 46 in human cells. Under normal circumstances, our body’s cells divide continuously in

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