Potential new 'twist' in breast cancer detection
Saturday, December 5, 2009 - 19:42
in Health & Medicine
Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia 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. Link: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org