Serendipity points to new potential target and therapy for melanoma
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
A new study describes a new target and potential treatment for melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. MicroRNA can decide which genes in a cell's DNA are expressed and which stay silent. Melanoma tends to lack microRNA-26a, which makes the gene SODD go silent.