Monday, November 4, 2013

New Theory of Cancer Development Offered By Researchers

Researchers have been unable to explain why cancer cells contain abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a phenomenon known as aneuploidy for more than 100 years. Many believed aneuploidy was simply a random byproduct of cancer. Now, a team at Harvard Medical School has devised a way to understand patterns of aneuploidy in tumors and predict which genes in the affected chromosomes are likely to be cancer suppressors or promoters. They propose that aneuploidy is a driver ...

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