Cancer cells are known to reawaken embryonic genes to grow. A new study reveals the disease also hijacks the proteins, or "editors", that control how those genes are read. The findings, published ...

Tumour cells in colorectal cancer exploit an important signalling pathway that normally controls embryo development. Researchers have now shown how a protein that controls the development of the arms ...

Physicians have long sought a test which would warn them of the presence of invisible, embryonic cancers. Last week cancer specialists found new hope in a simple cancer test reported in Science by Drs ...

The receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan 1 (ROR1) is a transmembrane protein expressed during embryonic development. Moreover, it is highly expressed on the surface of several cancer cell types, ...