Read the whole article by Carrie Arnold here in Scientific American.
The placenta’s invasion of the uterus holds clues to cancer resistance
To obtain nutrients for a growing fetus, a placenta embeds itself into the uterus—an “invasion” that resembles the way a tumor takes over healthy tissue. Now researchers have identified genes that help to regulate placental embedding and may prove instructive in developing anticancer drugs, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.