Fewer brain cancer deaths among children aim of biology researcher (University of Windsor)

(Source: University of Windsor) A biology researcher hopes her studies will result in fewer brain cancer related deaths among children. Elizabeth Fidalgo da Silva, a research associate and adjunct professor in Biological Sciences, is studying the role that a protein called tuberin plays in suppressing medulloblastoma, the most prevalent of all childhood brain cancers. Brain cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer related death in children under 19 and the third leading cause in young adults between 20 and 39. "If we can understand the mechanism of this protein then we can develop better therapies and...