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Platelets: The chameleons of cancer biology

  • Written by James Michael, Lecturer of Biochemistry, Thomas Jefferson University
Activated platelets (purple) on their way to heal a wound. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock.com

Have you ever been in a classroom and wondered to yourself whether the information being presented could be wrong?

During graduate school, I audited a medical school class in which the professor remarked that at some point in the students’ medical...

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