Genetic Dimmer Switch May Control Cancer Cell Drowsiness

The sleep of cancer cells may be more fitful than that of normal cells. Consequently, cancer cells may be more easily roused than normal cells from quiescence, a sort of slumbering state that cancer cells may use to pull up the covers and duck chemotherapy.Quiescence, it turns out, is not a single state, but rather a range of states. That is, quiescence may be deep, or light. If we could control quiescence, we might decide to awaken lightly sleeping cancer, boosting the effectiveness of chemothe