UCI study points to how skin cells cooperate to thwart cancer

Source: UCI News, October 2020

Melanoma is a life-threatening skin cancer that spreads quickly to other organs if not treated early. A new discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists shatters traditional beliefs about how melanomas develop, providing new insights into fighting the disease. The scientists’ research appears in eLife.

Arthur Lander, the Donald Bren Professor of development & cell biology, and his colleagues investigated melanocytic nevi, colloquially known as common pigmented moles.

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