Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
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University of Oregon

Tumor Growth in Mutant Drosophila Neuroblasts

Caption: Ryan Andersen, a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, led a study that found a protein connection that links tumor growth in Drosophila neuroblasts to that in human stem cells, providing a potential new model for studying many human cancers.

Credit: Photo by Jim Barlow

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