From parts to mechanisms: research heuristics for addressing heterogeneity in cancer genetics
A major approach to cancer research in the late twentieth century was to search for genes that, when altered, initiated the development of a cell into a cancerous state (oncogenes) or failed to stop this development (tumor suppressor genes). But as researchers acquired the capacity to sequence tumor...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Springer International Publishing
2019
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |