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Childhood Brain Tumor Traced to Normal Stem Cells Gone Bad (Newswise) |
Medulloblastoma, an aggressive childhood brain tumor, originates in normal brain “stem” cells that turn malignant when acted on by a known mutant oncogene, say Dana-Farber and the University of California, San Francisco researchers. The findings suggest that not all tumors may be born from the same cells.
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