Cancer stem cells and epithelial-mesenchymal transition: concepts and molecular links.

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Published in Semin Cancer Biol on April 23, 2012

Authors

Christina Scheel1, Robert A Weinberg

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1: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. scheel@wi.mit.edu

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