Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors
Monday, June 22, 2009 - 10:42
in Biology & Nature
SINGAPORE and DURHAM, N.C. -- In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and become a brain tumor.