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Hedgehog's other great trick

The poet Archilochus wrote “The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog one great one”. Yet a signalling-pathway namesake of hedgehog may have two great tricks that could be exploited for cancer therapy.

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Figure 1: Two-way communication between tumour cells and their microenvironment.

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Curran, T., Ng, J. Hedgehog's other great trick. Nature 455, 293–294 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455293a

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