A master cancer gene hijacks a ‘molecular crowbar’ to make breast cancer cells invasive
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19 January 2021A master cancer gene hijacks a ‘molecular crowbar’ to make breast cancer cells invasive
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have defined a cancer invasion machinery which is orchestrated by a frequently mutated cancer gene called Ras. When signaling from Ras protein becomes abnormally high, like it does in many cancers, this switches on the cellular machinery that helps the cancer cells to depart from the tissue from which the cells have developed.
