Echoes of the embryo: using the developmental biology toolkit to study cancer

The hallmark of embryonic development is regulation – the tendency for cells to find their way into organized and ‘well behaved’ structures – whereas cancer is characterized by dysregulation and disorder. At face value, cancer biology and developmental biology would thus seem to have little to do wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicole M. Aiello, Ben Z. Stanger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2016-02-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
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Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/2/105