Scientists develop method to determine order of mutations that lead to cancer
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
Zeroing in on the early cell mutations that enable a cancer to grow is one of the best ways to find a personalized therapy to stop it. Scientists were able to use a statistical approach for the first time to map out the order in which these abnormalities form to analyze the pattern of DNA changes in advanced skin and ovarian tumors.