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03-03-2014, 05:50 AM
Myoferlin, a protein only recently linked to cancer, may help breast cancer cells transform so they can escape tumors and migrate to new sites. When researchers implanted mice with breast cancer cells that couldn't make the protein because of its gene was switched off, the cells did not transform into the type that migrates.

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