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The Hippo Signaling Pathway and Cancer

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Twenty years ago marks a fascinating beginning of the new fledgling life of a novel signaling cascade—the Hippo Pathway. Today we are still grasping to understand its biological context and scrabbling to find new modulators of the pathway. Research is in full swing, and does not show any signs of slowing down in the foreseeable future.

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Oren, M., Aylon, Y. (2013). Introduction. In: Oren, M., Aylon, Y. (eds) The Hippo Signaling Pathway and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6220-0_1

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