Potential new ‘twist’ in breast cancer detection

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called “Twist” may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells.

source : www.eurekalert.org

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