A mitochondrial shield from cell death
How high mitochondrial counts help cancer resist, not succumb to, apoptosis
An IBM-Mount Sinai team has challenged the prevailing idea that high mitochondrial counts in tumor cells enhance cancer’s sensitivity to apoptosis-inducing therapies by showing that low numbers of the organelle actually do the trick.
The team's findings, reported last week in Nature Communications, suggest mitochondria are drivers of
