Organ-development discovery could boost battle against cancer (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Organ-development discovery could boost battle against cancer

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UVA’s Chongzhi Zang, PhD, and collaborators have revealed a critical process that determines how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that finding could have important implications for our understanding of cancer.

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Courtesy Zang lab

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