This Week in Nature

Aug 18, 2011

The Broad Institute's David Sabatini and colleagues report in Nature on their development and use of a method to uncover novel cancer targets. Their method uses a negative-selection RNAi screen that they then applied to find metabolic genes that are necessary for tumorigenesis in breast cancer.

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