Research Reveals How Metabolic Rewiring Enables “Persister” Cancer Cells to Resist Death and Treatment – Asmaa El-Kenawi
Asmaa El-Kenawi discusses her group’s research on therapeutic resistance in cancer, particularly focusing on the role of methionine in driving resistance. Published in “Cancer Research,” the study explores how cancer cells adapt to evade pyroptosis, a form of cell death. Dr. El-Kenawi, an assistant professor at Indiana University, explains that while many effective cancer therapies exist,…