BBC NEWS | Health | Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call'

[dracodraconis]

BBC NEWS | Health | Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call'

A recent study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong discovered that cancer cells are able to recover from conditions that normally trigger apoptosis (cell suicide) in normal cells. They only fail to recover when the conditions are so severe that the cell nucleus has been significantly damaged. They believe that this may explain why cancer cells can survive chemotherapy treatment.

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[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

There is some recycling of scientific news/research going on around this... this was fairly common knowledge amongst apoptosis researchers in 1999

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I've seen the "recycling" of news in machine vision as well, particularly repeating research that was performed before many of the papers went online. If it's not in the online database it apparently didn't happen.

Now I'm wondering what, if anything was unique in this study to make it newsworthy.