Peter Sicinski, PhD (IMAGE)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Peter Sicinski, PhD

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Peter Sicinski, PhD, and colleagues at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a common cancer protein leads a second, totally different life in normal adult brain cells: It helps regulates memory formation and may be implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

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