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Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia

The goal of cancer treatment is to match the right drug to the right target in the right patient. But before such “personalized” drugs can be developed, more knowledge is needed about specific genomic alterations in cancers and their sensitivity to potential therapeutic agents.

Many common diseases run in families. In some families, the risk of developing a particular disease can approach 50%. Recently, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified some of the genes that contribute to this risk, but for some diseases, a substantial portion remains unexplained. This gap has been called the “hidden heritability.”

Picture a game of chess between the immune system and HIV. For every move the immune system makes against the virus, its opponent adapts, changing the game and shifting the advantage. But what if you could turn the clock back and watch the first few moves of the game? What could you learn about the virus from its opening moves?

Researchers from the ӳý and the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard set out to take a careful look at a viral population during the critical time period just after infection.