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Fixer-upper: Understanding the DNA repair toolkit to chart cancer evolution
The ongoing fight of science against cancer has made great strides, but cancer cells have…
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Reasons to screen children with cancer for inherited cancer genes
Because cancers in children are rare, many details about their biology remain unknown. In the…
New studies clarify which genes may raise breast cancer risk
Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk…
Response to cancer immunotherapy may be affected by genes we carry from birth
For all their importance as a breakthrough treatment, the cancer immunotherapies known as checkpoint inhibitors…
Large-scale study finds genetic testing technology falsely detects very rare variants
A technology that is widely used by commercial genetic testing companies is “extremely unreliable” in…
New, simplified genetic test effectively screens for hereditary cancers
Researchers have developed a new integrated genetic/epigenetic DNA-sequencing protocol known as MultiMMR that can identify…
Designer DNA therapeutic wipes out cancer stem cells, treats multiple myeloma in mice
Many patients with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, eventually develop resistance to one…
New computational tool reliably differentiates between cancer and normal cells from single-cell RNA-sequencing data
In an effort to address a major challenge when analysing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers…
Novel RNA factors may help cancer cells thrive
Like Peter Pan, some cells never grow up. In cancer, undifferentiated stem cells may help…
Single-cell analysis of metastatic gastric cancer finds diverse tumour cell populations associated with patient outcomes
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA, who profiled more than…