Childhood eye tumor made up of hybrid cells with jumbled development
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
A research team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified a potential new target for treatment of the childhood eye tumor retinoblastoma. Their work also settles a scientific debate by showing the cancer's cellular origins are as scrambled as the developmental pathways at work in the tumor.