Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/a and the University of Colorado Cancer Center/a report in a new paper in the journal iNature Medicine/i that a fine-grained scan of DNA in lung cancer cells has revealed a gene fusion - a forced merger of two normally separate genes - that spurs the cells to divide rapidly.
Treating the cells with a compound that blocks a protein encoded by one of those genes - NTRK1 - caused the cells to die.br / br /The finding suggests that the fusion ...
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/a and the University of Colorado Cancer Center/a report in a new paper in the journal iNature Medicine/i that a fine-grained scan of DNA in lung cancer cells has revealed a gene fusion - a forced merger of two normally separate genes - that spurs the cells to divide rapidly.
Treating the cells with a compound that blocks a protein encoded by one of those genes - NTRK1 - caused the cells to die.br / br /The finding suggests that the fusion ...