Gene fusion behind lethal brain cancer

摘要

Treatment for a lethal form of brain cancer could be on the horizon after the discovery that it forms as a result of genes fusing. Anna Lasorella at the Institute for Cancer Genetics at Columbia University in New York and colleagues found that about 3 per cent of glioblastoma tumours that they studied were caused by the fusing of two genes. When fused, the two wreak havoc during cell division.