New Approach To Cancer: Find Most Tightly Controlled Genes
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 10:07
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have found a new way to study cancer that could be very useful for developing targeted therapies against tumors and possibly many other diseases. A data analysis revealed which genes are most tightly controlled in the cancerous tissues studied, yielding a new class of genes, in which only slight changes could affect gene function to elicit a sizable effect on a tumor.
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