Cancer cells that produce their own anti-cancer medication

Protein ‘switches’ could turn cancer cells into tiny chemotherapy factories September 30, 2011 by Editor Johns Hopkins researchers say they have devised a protein “switch” that instructs cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication. The researchers, led by Marc Ostermeier, a Johns Hopkins chemical and biomolecular engineering professor in the Whiting School of Engineering, showed that these switches, working from inside the cells, can activate a powerful cell-ki...