On the Most Wanted List: Skin Cancer ‘Mug Shots’
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)A gallery of highly-specific, gene and protein "mug shots" of cancer types would be a powerful "ID kit" for oncologists. The first systematic demonstration by NIH scientists that normal skin pigment-forming melanocytes and cancerous melanoma cells express different isoforms of an important transporter protein is another clue for a skin cancer "rogues' gallery."