Nature paper shows that cell division is reversible

Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division. The discovery could have important implications for the treatment of cancer, birth defects and numerous other diseases and disorders. Gorbsky’s findings appear in the April 13 issue of the journal Nature. “No one has gotten the cell cycle to go backwards before now,” said Gorbsky, who holds the W.H. and Betty Phelps Chair in Developmental Biology at OMRF. “This shows that certain events in the cell cycle that have long been assumed irreversible may, in fact, be reversible.”

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