Scientists Discover Molecule With Important Lung Cancer Role

Massachusetts scientists have uncovered a molecule that plays an important role in the development of lung cancer. By using RNA sequencing, a team of researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine studying airway epithelial cells found a molecule known as a microRNA. Findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Cancer Institute estimates 228,190 new U.S. cases in 2013 and 159,480 deaths.



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