Cancer is a disease of genes run amok, and scientists have found only a fraction of the bad actors. Earlier in the week, the U.S government unveiled a $100 million project to speed discovery of culprits and cures, the first step toward a comprehensive map of cancer’s genetic makeup.
“The challenge of cancer is its complexity,” said leading cancer geneticist Dr. Ronald DePinho, of Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “There are a staggering number of genetic alterations that occur.”
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