“The approach, at first glance, seems simplistic and naive,” cancer researcher Robert Weinberg of MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research writes in an email to The Scientist. “Why should an ...

Some of these factors are linked to signalling pathways that had been implicated in the development of cancer ... defects in cell polarity or asymmetric division of neural stem cells result ...

In addition, he studies the spindle assembly checkpoint which ensures proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer. Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem ...