TRP-ing up brain tumors

Malignant gliomas are devastating, uniformly fatal cancers for which current therapies remain palliative. A new study in mice shows that neural precursor cells, abundant in neonatal brains, release a fatty acid factor that induces glioma cell death through the activation of TRPV1 channels, prolonging survival and potentially uncovering a new treatment strategy (pages 1232–1238).