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.

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