Tumour mechanism identified

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil Medical College in New York and the Centre for Neural Tumour Research in Los Angeles, have for the first time identified a key mechanism that makes certain cells become tumourous in the brain. The resulting tumours occur most often spontaneously but can also occur in numbers as part of the inherited disease Neurofibromatosis type 2...

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