Starry Night in the Pancreas (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Starry Night in the Pancreas

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Research led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has taken a step toward identifying the cysts in the pancreas that are likely to become cancerous. In this image, the brown areas are stained for a biomarker in tissue from a patient who developed pancreatic cancer from a cyst.

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Koushik Das, M.D.

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