From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Scientists in Japan have found that a protein fragment dubbed NK4 can stall the development of pancreatic cancer in mice.
The researchers isolated NK4 in 1989 by taking apart a protein called hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), which normally attaches to a receptor molecule on the surface of cells.
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