Phrases with «cancer geneticist»

A cancer geneticist is a scientist who studies how genes (the instructions in our bodies) can cause or contribute to the development of cancer (a disease where cells grow out of control). They research and try to understand the genetic factors that play a role in the formation and progression of cancer. Full definition

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cancer geneticist

Sentences with «cancer geneticist»

Robert A. Weinberg, cancer geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (sciencemag.org)
When Sotos first brought his hypothesis to Eng in 2007, she was one of the few cancer geneticists who felt this was plausible and asked for molecular proof. (lerner.ccf.org)
«We are doing a sort of molecular archaeology,» says cancer geneticist Ludmil Alexandrov of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who led the analysis. (sciencenews.org)
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Phrases with «cancer geneticist»

Sentences with «cancer geneticist»

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