Pancreatic Cancer's Cellular Amnesia
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, June 18 (TNSres) -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:
Things aren't always as they seem. Take pancreatic cancer, for example. In up to one in 10 cases, researchers have documented a peculiar characteristic. Some of the pancreatic cells appear to have lost their identity. It's as if they forget what they are. Former Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) postdoc Diogo Maia-Silva, now at Massachusetts General Hospital, explains:
Things aren't always as they seem. Take pancreatic cancer, for example. In up to one in 10 cases, researchers have documented a peculiar characteristic. Some of the pancreatic cells appear to have lost their identity. It's as if they forget what they are. Former Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) postdoc Diogo Maia-Silva, now at Massachusetts General Hospital, explains: