Protein Identifies Cancer Cells

I discovered an article written by Catharine Paddock, PhD who gives information on a protein that identifies cancer cells that are becoming aggressive and ready to spread to the rest of the body. Researchers from Rockefeller University in New York and the University of Bergen in Norway, have reported their findings called PITPNC1 in the journal Cancer Cell.

Dr. Nils Halberg is first author and a molecular biologist at the University of Bergen who says they have discovered that the aggressive cancer cells that are spreading in colon, breast and skin cancer contains a higher portion of the protein PITPNC1 …read more