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Halting Cancers’ Spread – John Lewis

Can we put the brakes on cancers’ ability to metastasize? In episode 33, John Lewis from the University of Alberta talks with us about his research into inhibiting cancer cell movement and metastasis through genomic targets. His article “Quantitative in vivo whole genome motility screen reveals novel therapeutic targets to block cancer metastasis” was published with multiple co-authors in the June 14, 2018 issue of the open-access journal Nature Communications.

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