Pancreatic cancer: Major breakthrough in our understanding of the mechanisms of the disease
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
Pancreatic tumors often lose the ability to express a small ribonucleic acid molecule called miR-137, a recent breakthrough has shown. The loss of miR-137 works in conjunction with various mutations frequently observed in pancreatic tumors to trigger uncontrolled cell growth and then cancer.