Breast Cancer Genetic Breakthrough
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Research by an international team of genome researchers at the Sanger Institute, in Cambridge, England, BBC.com reports may “help unlock new ways of treating and preventing” breast cancer.
The team, says the Beeb, investigated “all 3 billion letters of people’s genetic code – their entire blueprint of life – in 560 breast cancers.”
Scientists offer “tempered optimism” that new specifically targeted cancer drugs may be created, to fight the disease. The bad news is that cancer often develops resistance to therapeutics.
The original Nature.com article, Landscape of somatic mutations in 560
breast cancer whole-genome sequences, is available here.
Tags: genetics, genomes, biomedical engineering, chemistry, anatomy
