Can tumor progression be understood in terms of the redeployment of mechanisms used in embryonic development? The identification of Twist, a bHLH transcription factor, as a protein linked to metastases in breast cancers would suggest so.
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Thiery, J., Morgan, M. Breast cancer progression with a Twist. Nat Med 10, 777–778 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0804-777
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