Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation
Slow-growing glioma tumors become more aggressive when their cells shift identities and acquire new genetic mutations.
Funding
This study was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Fund, the Ludwig Center at Harvard, a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, a King Trust Fellowship Award, the NIH, the Harold Amos Faculty Development Program, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the Sontag Foundation, the Massachusetts General Hospital Research Scholars, and the NCI.
Paper cited
Wu J, Gonzalez Castro LN, Battaglia S, et al. . Nature Cancer. Online November 21, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-024-00865-3