The Blue Buffalo Foundation and Animal Cancer Foundation (ACF) have partnered to embark on the Canine Cancer Genome Project to
map tumor genomes in the most common canine cancers.
The CCGP project seeks to
map the tumor genomes of the most common canine cancers, a missing piece of information cancer researchers need to expedite research to benefit pets and people.
The Canine Cancer Genome Project's goal is to
map the tumor genomes of the most common canine cancers.
Not exact matches
«Cancer cells disguise themselves by switching off genes, new research reveals: A
genome - wide
map of the genes switched off in aggressive
tumors reveals a «signature».»
In a study published in Neoplasia, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine created a
map showing which genes were switched on and off in different parts of the
tumor, providing a «signature» of these switches throughout the
genome.
But
tumors from patients with distant metastases to the lung and liver showed massive epigenetic changes that
mapped to large, blocklike segments of the
genome, both in the distant metastases themselves and in the section, or «subclone,» of the primary
tumors they came from.