epithelial cancers Archives
Probing the tumor microenvironment
Jul. 12, 2022—Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell sequencing, imaging, and computational approaches to characterize the colonic tumor microenvironment, providing important insights to the components that play roles in colorectal tumor pathogenesis.
The role of polarity in early cancer
Sep. 21, 2021—Mutations in the protein epiregulin, an EGF receptor ligand, affect larger epithelial cell reorganization and may contribute to early cancer development, Vanderbilt researchers discovered.
Heart protein may be target for colon cancer therapies
Oct. 7, 2011—A protein critical in heart development may also play a part in colon cancer progression.
