TCD scientists make major cancer cell discovery

SCIENTISTS at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have made a major discovery about how cancer cells self-destruct in a development which could lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of patients with the disease.

A research group headed by TCD’s Smurfit Professor of Medical Genetics, Seamus Martin, claims new information on the behaviour of fledgling cancer cells has the potential of impacting on future cancer therapies.

The findings of the group have just been published in the internationally renowned medical journal, Molecular Cell.