Post by Deanne Jenkyns on Nov 7, 2007 17:26:41 GMT 1
Scientists Pave the Way to Map Cancer
The Boston Globe. 2007 Nov 5
This weekend, an international team led by a Boston researcher unveiled the most detailed look ever at the genetic ravages inside a lung tumor, finding at least one target for drug research and laying the foundation for an ambitious - and controversial - federal effort to identify all the DNA damage that causes major cancers. The scientists, which included those from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the study validates a new approach to fighting cancer--systematically identifying genetic changes that turn healthy cells cancerous, in hopes of finding cancer's weaknesses. The Human Genome Research Institute along with the National Cancer Institute will decide whether to go forward with the full-scale project at the conclusion of another study mapping genetic defects found in forms of brain, ovarian, and lung cancer.
The Boston Globe. 2007 Nov 5
This weekend, an international team led by a Boston researcher unveiled the most detailed look ever at the genetic ravages inside a lung tumor, finding at least one target for drug research and laying the foundation for an ambitious - and controversial - federal effort to identify all the DNA damage that causes major cancers. The scientists, which included those from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the study validates a new approach to fighting cancer--systematically identifying genetic changes that turn healthy cells cancerous, in hopes of finding cancer's weaknesses. The Human Genome Research Institute along with the National Cancer Institute will decide whether to go forward with the full-scale project at the conclusion of another study mapping genetic defects found in forms of brain, ovarian, and lung cancer.
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