Rock and rho: Proteins that help cancer cells groove

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Biologists have discovered that low oxygen conditions, which often persist inside tumors, are sufficient to initiate a molecular chain of events that transforms breast cancer cells from being rigid and stationery to mobile and invasive. Their evidence underlines the importance of hypoxia-inducible factors in promoting breast cancer metastasis.

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