Etta’s cancer breakthrough

Professor Etta Livneh of Israel’s Ben Gurion University has found a peptide (uPEP2) in the body’s messenger RNA that inhibits cancer cell survival, tumor progression, metastasis and more. Amazingly, uPEP2 originates from a gene classified with the Greek letter Eta (Prof Livneh’s forename).

https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/news/hetta_livne.aspx

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2018899118

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