A team of Florida State University researchers has discovered that a common household pest can tell us a lot about an aggressive tumor that attacks young children. Professor of Biological Science Wu-Min Deng and postdoctoral researcher Gengqiang Xie published a new paper in the journal Cancer Research that describes how a complex protein called Snr1, […]
Fruit flies yield clues on cancerous tumor hotspots
Florida State University researchers have found that the epithelial tissues that line the surfaces of organs throughout the body intrinsically have hot spots for cancerous tumors. They discovered this by examining a common household pest — the fruit fly. “Flies and humans have a lot in common in terms of genes and pathways for developing […]