Scientists devise targeted therapy strategy for rare form of childhood cancer
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
By 'distracting' cancer proteins from their usual activity, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital have caused cells in a rare, lethal form of cancer to begin behaving like normal cells - one of the longest-standing, and most rarely achieved, goals of cancer research. The study's findings are published online by the journal Cancer Research and will appear later in a print issue...