Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Breast Cancer DNA Sequenced

Major breast cancer breakthrough announced at BC Cancer Agency "For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour, a type of breast cancer which accounts for about 10 per cent of all breast cancers, and have found all of the mutations, or 'spelling' mistakes that caused the cancer to spread."

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