New discovery about growth factor can be breakthrough for cancer research

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

A research team at the Ludwig Institute and Uppsala University has discovered an entirely new signal path for a growth factor that is of crucial importance for the survival and growth of cancer cells. This discovery, published in today`s issue of Nature Cell Biology, opens up an entirely new landscape for research on breast and prostate cancer, among other types.

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