Oncogene news from around the world
Scientists find new gene fault behind ovarian cancer
Women who carry an inherited fault in the gene BRIP1 are over three times more…
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Breast cancer study suggests new potential drug targets and combinations
The largest analysis of breast cancer cell function to date suggests dozens of new uses…
Laws of nature predict cancer evolution
Cancers evolve over time in patterns governed by the same natural laws that drive physical…
New findings may enhance PARP inhibitors therapy in breast cancer
Findings from a new study reveal that PARP inhibitors, an emerging class of drugs being…
Twin study estimates familial risks of 23 different cancers
A large new study of twins has found that having a twin sibling diagnosed with…
Why most cancer isn’t due to ‘bad luck’
By Sarah Allinson, Lancaster University. A study published in Science in early 2015 reported that most…
Why we still don’t have personalised medicine, 15 years after sequencing the human genome
By Bryony Graham, University of Oxford. The completion of the first draft of the human genome…
Future of cancer treatment lies in individual genetics
The future of cancer treatment lies in genetics rather than traditional approaches such as chemotherapy…
The New Gene-Editing Technique That Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses
By Ed Yong – The Atlantic. CRISPR can finally tell us which human genes are…
How oncologists use personalised medicine to target variations unique to each tumour
By Elizabeth Williams, Queensland University of Technology and Rik Thompson, Queensland University of Technology. The Children’s…