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Scientists pluck a light-sensitive protein from plants to study cancer metastasis

Scientists are harnessing a special protein in plants that helps them crawl toward the sun to glean new insights into cancer metastasis.

There’s a special protein in plants that helps them crawl toward the sun. Now, scientists have harnessed that protein to glean new insights into cancer metastasis.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, placed that light-sensitive protein into a cancer cell line to

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