Researchers find gene function 'lost' in melanoma and glioblastoma
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 11:35
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre have found a gene they say is inactivated in two aggressive cancers - malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and glioblastoma multiforme, a lethal brain tumour. They add that because this gene, known as PTPRD, has recently been found to be inactivated in several other cancers as well, their discovery suggests that PTPRD may play a tumour suppressor role in a wide variety of different cancers...