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Cancer cells fight for their footing by using an aging gene

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow have discovered how mutated cells promote their chances to form cancer. Typically, the accumulation of harmful cells is prevented by active competition between multiple stem cells in intestinal glands, called crypts. “The functioning of intestinal stem cells relies on growth...