Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research

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By Alice Carver Scientists with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University have managed to draw a map of the genetic mutations involved in two of the most aggressive cancers: glioblastoma, the most common form of brain.

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In Long-Awaited Maps of Cancer, the Breakthrough Is the Problem

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After struggling for years to improve the treatment of cancer, scientists now hope to fight the disease with the help of the same techniques that deciphered the human genome eight years ago: mapping it. The idea was to sort out which gene mutations cause which types of cancer so that cancer treatments could be tailored to each patient. However, what the researchers found was quite different...

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Sequence analysis of BAC clones from the Apospory-Specific Genomic Region (ASGR)of Pennisetum and Cenchrus

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Thirty-two ASGR BACs isolated from both Pennisetum and Cenchrus and one ASGR-recombining BAC from P. squamulatum, that together cover approximately 2.7 Mb of DNA, were used to investigate the genomic structure of this region. Phrap assembly of 4521 high quality reads generated 1341 contiguous sequences (contigs) (730 from the ASGR and 30 from the ASGR-recombining BAC in P. squamulatum, plus 580 from the C. ciliaris ASGR).

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