Regenerative Cancer Therapy: a novel approach to fight against cancer KU Leuven
Despite progress in cancer therapies, there are still no effective therapies for several cancers, like liver cancers. Excitingly, my host laboratory recently made an astonishing discovery: using a mouse model for liver cancer, they discovered that genetic stimulation of regeneration by activating the transcriptional co-activator YAP in normal hepatocytes caused tumor cell death and dramatic tumor regression. Therefore, stimulating ...