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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2016-02-01
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Series: | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
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Online Access: | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/2/105 |