Researchers have used powerful gene-analysis tools to discover mutations in two related genes, ARID1A and ARID1B, involved in the most aggressive form of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. While these findings do not immediately improve clinical treatments, they identify a novel pathway that is defective in these cancers, a pathway that scientists can now study to develop potential new therapies. "These gene alterations were not previously known ...Monday, 3 December 2012
Highest-Risk Form of a Childhood Cancer can be Deciphered Via New Gene-Sequencing Tools
Researchers have used powerful gene-analysis tools to discover mutations in two related genes, ARID1A and ARID1B, involved in the most aggressive form of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. While these findings do not immediately improve clinical treatments, they identify a novel pathway that is defective in these cancers, a pathway that scientists can now study to develop potential new therapies. "These gene alterations were not previously known ...
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