Nuclear Pore Control May Stop Cancer Cells from Proliferating

Scientists at the Salk Institute report (“ Tpr regulates the total number of nuclear pore complexes per cell nucleus ”) in Genes & Development that they have devised a way to manipulate numbers of individual nuclear pores that may one day stop cancerous cells from proliferating out of control.Previously, we didn't have the tools to artificially increase nuclear pores, says lead author Martin Hetzer, Ph.D., who is also Salk's vice president and CSO. Our study provides an experimen