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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:00 pm    Post subject: A new link between stem cells and tumors Reply with quote

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Parc Cient.fic de Barcelona (IRB-PCB) have now added key evidence to claims that some types of cancer originate with defects in stem cells. The study, reported this week in the on-line edition of <i>Nature Genetics</i> (September 4) shows that if key molecules aren't placed in the right locations within stem cells before they divide, the result can be deadly tumors.

[url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/embl-anl090205.php]Read more...[/url]
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