Nature Medicine
5, 1129 - 1130 (1999)
doi:10.1038/13451
Telomeres: has cancer's Achilles' heel been exposed?Louis A Zumstein1
& Victoria Lundblad21
Introgen Therapeutics, Inc, Houston, Texas 77030
fL_Zumstein@introgen.com
2
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030,
USA
lundblad@bcm.tmc.edu
Telomerase allows cells to grow indefinitely, and is expressed in the majority
of human cancers. New data suggest, however, that telomere maintenance might
be a stumbling block on the path to immortalization and that inhibition of
telomere replication can attenuate human cancer cell growth (pages 1164−1170)
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