Researchers rapidly hunt down and find new genes that lead to cancer

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 15:49 in Biology & Nature

Using a new approach that combines scientific technologies to hunt down genetic changes involved in cancer, researchers have discovered 13 tumour suppressor genes that, when mutated, can lead to liver cancers. Twelve of those genes had never been linked to cancer before, according to the report published online in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, on 13 November...

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