EshanMaitra
Cancer develops by manipulating the sentry cells that were supposed to protects one’s body from such harmful cells. The defending cells of the body fails to recognize the cancer cells, then these cancer cells can rapidly grow to take over the organs or just break the metabolic system. But in the meantime, these defensive sentry cell still do exist, just without any proper guidance. Scientists has been working on different methods for reactivating them once again, with the order to kill the cancer cells. After all, they do possess such ability. Fortunately, an Australian team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, might have found an effective solution to this, for triggering cancer-cell-extermination order.
They havetargeteda protein cells, called Bak and figured a new method for activating/unleashing its wrath on wicked the cancer cells. It functions as a biological assassin that, kills off old and dysfunctional cells, much like what cancer cell lay waste in its process. One of the researchers, Ruth Kluck says, “We were excited when we realised we had found an entirely new way of activating Bak.”
Formerly known as Apoptosis, in which process Bak naturally operates the cell-death process. Cancer cells checks out by manipulating the sentry cells and those sentry cells raise no alert any further, further for Bak to act in or whatsoever. But these scientists have discovered out method of binding the Bak protein with certain antibody, that could nudge Bakcless to investigate and take control of strike.Kluck explained it as, “There is great interest in developing drugs that trigger Bak activation to treat diseases such as cancer where apoptosis has gone awry. This discovery gives us a new starting point for developing therapies that directly activate Bak and cause cell death.”
This is very exciting in the field of cancer research. They say, the same drugs can also treat Autoimmune diseases. Theirstudy results were published in ‘Nature Communications’.