Platelets shown to store DNA in study that could transform cancer screening

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of British and German scientists revealed the structure of the extracellular matrix in Volvox carteri, a type of green algae that is often used to study how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors.The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a scaffold-like material that surrounds cells, pr