sábado, 15 de agosto de 2015

Curiosidades One Protein, Two Personalities: Penn Team Identifies New Mechanism of Cancer Spread

A new finding by University of Pennsylvania scientists has identified key steps that trigger this disintegration of cellular regulation. Their discovery—that a protein called Exo70 has a split personality, with one form keeping cells under tight control and another contributing to the ability of tumors to invade distant parts of the body—points to new possibilities for diagnosing cancer metastasis.


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