Cancer experts hail a molecular ‘black box’ that records how cells fly into tumor territory

“It’s like a molecular flight recorder like the black box on a plane," with which “you can reconstruct the history of how a tumor evolved and became aggressive, even try…

Biologists Tyler Jacks and Jonathan Weissman’s mice may look like any other lab mice — plain, pale, and furry — but cancer geneticists see them as a “technical tour de force.”

“It’s a pretty heavily engineered mouse,” said Weissman, a biologist at the Whitehead Institute.

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