Breast cancer stem cells identified

by John on December 5, 2009

From the article Proverbial new “Twist” in Breast Cancer Detection:

… scientists at Johns Hopkins … have shown that a protein made by a gene called “Twist” may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells.

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