Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 06:28
in Biology & Nature
While some scientists have argued that cancer is such a complex genetic disease that you'd have to sequence a person's complete genome in order to predict his or her cancer risk, a University of California, Berkeley, cell biologist suggests that the risk may be more simply determined by inexpensively culturing a few skin cells...