Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body

(University of CaliforniaBerkeley) If susceptibility to cancer is the result of inherited genetic mutations, then DNA in all the body’s cells should have these mutations. UC Berkeley cell biologist Harry Rubin argues that, since skin cells are easy to culture, it may be possible to observe the behavior of skin cells in a Petri dish and detect those mutations involving growth that increase our cancer risk.

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