Cancer epigenetics: Breakthrough in ID'ing target genes
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
Cancer is usually attributed to faulty genes, but growing evidence from the field of cancer epigenetics indicates a key role for the gene "silencing" proteins that stably turn genes off inside the cell nucleus. A new study promises to speed research in the field by rapidly identifying the genes that epigenetic proteins can target for silencing.