«Biology of childhood
brain tumor subtypes offers clues to precision treatments: Researchers reveal differences among gene fusions in low - grade pediatric brain tumors.»
Researchers have identified the cells that likely give rise to
the brain tumor subtype Group 4 medulloblastoma.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, the
brain tumors that form closer to the SVZ tend to be proneural or neural
subtypes, while
tumors form farther from the SVZ tend to be classical or mesenchymal
subtypes.
«Carefully defining the molecular landscape of these
tumor subtypes may guide us in pediatric precision medicine, to better treat children with
brain tumors,» said Payal Jain, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular —
brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer
subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.
My laboratory studies the biology of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive
subtype of
brain tumors.