Finding Cancer's Off Switch

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MicroRNA's role in cancer reveals possibilities for treatment and early warning

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Yale's Frank Slack and Joanne Weidhaas study the important role that microRNAs play in cancer's growth. This is pointing the way to possible microRNA-based treatments and has led to the discovery of genes that signal lung and ovarian cancer risk.

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