Montreal researchers shed light on common juvenile cancer

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 08:01 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universite de Montreal have defined for the first time the mechanism behind three cancer-causing genes in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Published in the journal Genes and Development, the findings offer insight on the complex interaction between the genes and their contributions to leukaemia, thereby providing the foundation for the design of targeted therapies...

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