Mixing Genomics and Proteomics to Fight Cancer

Jul 09, 2008

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Kimberly Stegmaier led a study published yesterday in PNAS that uses a "signature-based screening approach" to identify hits in neuroblastoma treatment. Her team used gene expression analysis to screen a small molecule library, and the top hit was all-trans-retinoic acid.

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