Researchers pinpoint two genes that trigger severest form of ovarian cancer
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Researchers create first mouse model of ovarian clear cell carcinoma using data from human cancer genome atlas. They show how when the genes ARID1A and PIK2CA are mutated in specific ways, the result is ovarian cancer 100 percent of the time. They show that a known drug can suppress tumor growth.