“Stop evil before it happens!” : this is the maxim of Lao Tzu that Agatha M. Kieliszek and her colleagues have tried to apply throughout a study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine looking for a technique to destroy cancer cells responsible for brain metastases while they are still in transit.
Canadian researchers from McMaster University then identified the weak point of these cells, an enzyme called IMPBH, and found several candidate molecules capable of targeting this enzyme and therefore destroying cancer cells before they trigger a tumor.