First molecular steps to childhood leukemia identified
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
A Harvard research based at Massachusetts General Hospital has identified how a chromosomal abnormality known to be associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – the most common cancer in children – initiates the disease process. In the July issue of Cell Stem Cell, they describe how expression of this mutation in hematopoieread more