Laboratory study suggests that thalidomide-like drugs could be designed to target a broad array of transcription factors, and open a new landscape of cancer drug development.
In explaining why mutations in the gene TP53 tend to cluster in “hot spots,” a new study lays the groundwork for ability to identify the function of any mutation in any cancer gene.
Long thought to be genetically stable and identical, cancer cell lines harbor significant levels of genetic variation, which may help explain why it can be hard to reproduce findings in cell line-based research.