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Cultured colorectal cancer cells. Top: Cells that have become resistant to certain forms of chemotherapy and continue to thrive. Bottom: The same cells, which have had the LIP gene inserted and are then treated with chemotherapy drugs
Opposite Effects
02.07.2015
Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology

What makes cancer cells survive chemotherapy?
Normal human colonic crypts. SMOC-2 expression (red) in the colonic stem cells demonstrates that these cells are localized in the bottoms of the crypts. Bars represent 100 micrometers (left) and 50 micrometers (right)
Colon Cancer: Taking a Step Back to Move Forward
29.06.2015
Cancer, Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology

Some tumor cells in the advanced stages of colorectal cancer adopt a...
Without the c-Kit gene, colon cancer cells grow in a disorderly, aggregated manner and are invasive (A); when c-Kit expression is restored in these cells, they revert to a more normal organization (B)
The Double Life of a Cancer Gene
15.09.2013
Space & Physics, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A cancer-causing gene can prevent the deadly spread of a tumor at a later point in malignancy
Prof. Yosef Yarden and Sara Lavi.
Two Arms Are Better than One
01.10.2007
Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology
A tiny diiference between two proteins gives researchers a clue to cancer metastasis...
A Gene for Metastasis
A Gene for Metastasis
28.08.2007
Space & Physics, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics
Scientists pinpoint an important player in colorectal cancer spread
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