Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Protein Key to Breast Cancer Metastasis Identified

Scientists have identified melastatin-like 7 (TRPM7) protein - a critical determinant of breast cancer cell metastasis. "The most important discovery that we report in this paper is that TRPM7 is required for metastasis, at least in a xenograft model of breast cancer metastasis," said Frank van Leeuwen, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Radbound University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. "While this fundamental biological finding will not have ...

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