Stem cell mutation may confer metastasis risk:
http://www.obgynnews.com/news/top-news/single-article/stem-cell-mutations-in-breast-cancer-may-confer-metastatic-risk/a9fff020376e6e3bf3fe9667100905b6.html?tx_ttnews%5BsViewPointer%5D=1
In separate news, rare Marfan's syndrome shed light on a common affliction of allergy and asthma:
Losartan's effects on TGF-beta were discovered by Dietz and colleagues. His group subsequently showed that losartan can halt the dangerous ballooning of the aorta caused by abnormal TGF-beta in patients with Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/jhm-jhr071813.php
http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/Aortic-Aneurysm-Growth-Treatment-in-Marfan-Syndrome.aspx
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