Breast cancer metastasis (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Breast cancer metastasis

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When mice are engineered to carry a variant of the human PCSK9 gene, they experience higher rates of breast cancer metastasis, as is apparent in these images of mouse lung tissue showing PCSK9’s impact.

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Elizabeth And Vincent Meyer Laboratory Of Systems Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University

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