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Disarming cancer: Getting the upper hand on treatment-resistant quasi-mesenchymal cells
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Disarming cancer: Getting the upper hand on treatment-resistant quasi-mesenchymal cells

by Greta Friar,  Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Epithelial cancer cells (in white) and quasi-mesenchymal cancer cells (in green). Credit: Anushka Dongre/Whitehead Institute Cancer is at its most deadly when two things occur: the cancer cells metastasize, spreading to new sites in the body, and the cells become resistant to treatment. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a...