Roundworm unlocks pancreatic cancer pathway
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Scientists took a step back to a simpler organism -- a common roundworm -- and made a discovery about how the Ras oncogene chooses a signaling pathway and how the consequences of that choice play out in cellular development -- a key issue in cancer, which is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.