Craig Thompson: The method to cancer's madness
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Craig Thompson: The method to cancer's madness
C ancer cells proliferate with abandon and in defi ance of the restrictions usually placed on dividing cells. How do cancer cells—or normal dividing cells, for that matter—fuel rampant growth? That's a question Craig Thompson is bent on answering. Thompson trained in research while serving as an MD in the US Navy (1). Though he never went to sea, he has made waves throughout his career—fi rst a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1540-8140,0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.1914pi