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ScienceDaily: Epstein-Barr Virus Protein Crucial To Its Role In Blood Cancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Their findings demonstrate a new mechanism by which EBV transforms human B cells from the immune system into cancerous cells, which can lead to development of B-cell lymphomas. |
| | Erle S. Robertson, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Director of Tumor Virology, with Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and MD/PhD student Jason Knight, published their results in the early March issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology. |
| | Using human cell cultures infected with the Epstein-Barr virus, the investigators found that a specific viral protein targets a molecule that normally regulates the cell-cycle progression, or duplication process, of resting B cells. |
| www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/03/050329131312.htm (1726 words) |
