Opinion: Comparative biology of mouse versus human cells: modelling human cancer in mice.

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Published in Nat Rev Cancer on December 01, 2003

Authors

Annapoorni Rangarajan1, Robert A Weinberg

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1: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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