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Study suggests potential for new oncolytic therapiesA novel mechanism used by adenovirus to sidestep the cell's suicide program, could go a long way to explain how tumor suppressor genes are silenced in tumor cells and pave the way for a new type of targeted cancer therapy, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the Aug. 26, 2010 issue of Nature.When a cell is under stress, the tumor suppressor p53 springs into action activating an army of foot soldiers that...