Childhood brain tumour traced to normal stem cells gone bad
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:14
in Health & Medicine
An aggressive childhood brain tumour known as medulloblastoma originates in normal brain 'stem' cells that turn malignant when acted on by a known mutant, cancer-causing oncogene, say researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of California, San Francisco...
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