In the test tube, teams reconstruct a cancer cell's beginning
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 05:30
in Health & Medicine
What prompts normal cells to transform themselves into cancerous cells? Researchers from Texas institutions, including the UT Health Science Centre San Antonio, have identified factors in the very first step of the process and reconstituted this first step in the test tube. The latter accomplishment was reported Sunday [Nov. 21] in the top-tier journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology...