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Peter Adams: Aged tissues at increased risk of cancer due to “precarious balance”

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Aug 8, 2024, 05:38

Peter Adams: Aged tissues at increased risk of cancer due to “precarious balance”

Peter Adams, Director of NCI-designated Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys (SBP), shared on X a recent paper by Aaron Havas et al. titled “Activated Interferon Signaling Suppresses Age-Dependent Liver Cancer” published in BioRxiv.

Authors: Aaron Havas, Kathryn Lande, Adarsh Rajesh, Garrett Evensen, Siva Karthik Varanasi, Linshan Shang, Elizabeth Schmidt, Jin Lee, Kenneth Kim, ProfileMarcos Garcia Teneche, Filipe Hoffmann, Peter Adams et al.

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“New study led by talented post doc in the lab Aaron Havas:

aged tissues at increased risk of cancer due to ‘precarious balance’.
age-activated IFN signaling is an adaptive response to prevent cancer in older tissues, but with maladaptive consequence.”

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