UCSD, UCSF Launch Multimillion Dollar Cancer Cell Map Initiative

Jan 29, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A group led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco has launched the Cancer Cell Map Initiative (CCMI), which aims to sketch a "wiring diagram" of normal and mutated genes and proteins within a cancer cell.

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