Since sequencing the human genome, the Sanger Institute in the UK and the US National Human Genome Research Institute have turned their sights — and their vast sequencing capacities — to cancer. Cancers can be thought of as genomic diseases, caused by somatic mutations, and progressing by the accumulation of […]
Michael Retsky, William Hrushesky, and Isaac Gukas have an interesting article relating to angiogenesis in the evolution of tumours published in BMC Cancer today.[1] It’s only an hypothesis, but it covers an area of cancer biology that I have been meaning to blog about for a long time now. Angiogenesis […]
A few weeks ago I blogged about Down’s syndrome, and this week about cancer and cancer cytogenetics. I’ve spotted loads of things I neglected to mention about cancer, but there’s one thing I deliberately left for another post, because it’s something I’m less familiar with and wanted to read a […]