GSK-backed scientific team at UCSF says they found the immortality switch in cancer cells — and know how to turn it off

Cancer cells cheat death in a number of ways, dividing and multiplying infinitely in a patient’s body. But by tinkering with glioblastoma cells a preclinical proof-of-concept study, researchers from UC San Francisco report that they have found a way to disrupt one of those “immortality switches.”