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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 06 > New clues to treatment as cancer genes decoded

New clues to treatment as cancer genes decoded

Pioneering research focuses on all genes

By Denise Grady / The Bulletin
November 6, 2008

For the first time, researchers have decoded all the genes of a person with cancer and found a set of mutations that may have caused the disease or aided its progression.

Using cells donated by a woman in her 50s who died of leukemia, the scientists sequenced all the DNA from her cancer cells....

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