Cancer Clues from Embryonic Development

Scientific American | Apr. 23, 2009 (News Report)
Rethinking cancer by seeing tumors as a cellular pregnancy

“This is a fundamentally different way of thinking. A cell that mutates looks for genes that can help it flourish” and finds them in the suites of developmental genes Full Story »

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 by Katie Gilmartin - Apr. 23, 2009

The sources are credible because they come directly from the researchers of this new idea.

I feel that this topic is a sensitive one because it involves embryonic research (that was just legalized) but researchers are already finding great use of the embryonic cells by making these new discoveries which may in turn provide a cure

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