Sydney, 17 March (IANS). Australian scientists have discovered a new process related to cancer prevention, focused on structures called telomere. Telomere are protective covering at the end of chromosomes (chromosomes), which can help protect cells from cancer.
Telomere plays an important role in aging and preventing cancer. With aging, they gradually become smaller. When telomers become too small, they indicate cells to stop division. It is a natural security process, which prevents cancer from spreading. According to the news agency Xinhua, this information has been revealed in a study by the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) in Sydney.
According to Tony Sesare of CMRI’s Genome Integrity Unit, “Our data suggests that tailomeres are very active. They can react to stress immediately and start a cellular response to look like aging. They do this to avoid cancer.”
In this research, Cesare and his team along with scientists at Kyoto University, Japan tried to understand how tailomere plays an active role in preventing cancer. This study has been published in a magazine called Nature Communications.
According to Tony Cesare, “Most people believe that telomers become passively smaller. But our research suggests that they actively protect cells.”
Telomere helps to destroy the cells in which chromosomes are damaged by stopping the cell cycle or by motivating cells to die by themselves. This discovery has revealed a new anti-cancer work of Telomere, which was not known earlier. “
According to cessare, this discovery may open the way to new cancer treatments. If the cancer cells are targeted by targeting the tailomere, it can form an effective treatment strategy.
According to the World Health Organization, about 2 crore new cancer cases were detected in 2022 and 97 lakh people died of the disease. According to the data, 1 in every 5 people are likely to get cancer during their lifetime, while 1 out of every 9 men and 1 out of every 12 women lose their lives.
-IANS
AS/
