August 6, 1999
MIT Scientists Create Human Cancer Cells
A team of researchers has produced the first genetically determined human cancer cells, an achievement that should improve understanding of the process by which human cells become cancerous.
The development was reported in the July 29 issue of Nature by a team led by Robert A. Weinberg, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its affiliated Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
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