Gene vital to brain's stem cells implicated in deadly brain cancer

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 11:42 in Biology & Nature

NEW YORK -- Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that activates brain stem cells to make new neurons -- but that may be hijacked later in life to cause brain cancer in humans.

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