Cancer cells need healthy genes to survive
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 11:07
in Biology & Nature
BOSTON, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered cancer cells rely on normal, healthy genes as much as they rely on mutated genes to maintain their abnormal state.
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