Johns Hopkins scientists crack genetic code for form of pancreatic cancer
Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have deciphered the genetic code for a type of pancreatic cancer, called neuroendocrine or islet cell tumours. The work, described online in the Jan. 20 issue of Science Express, shows that patients whose tumours have certain coding 'mistakes' live twice as long as those without them...