Lung cancer and melanoma laid bare: First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 14:56 in Biology & Nature

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announce the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. All cancers are caused by mutations in the DNA of cancer cells which are acquired during a person's lifetime. The studies, of a malignant melanoma and a lung cancer, reveal for the first time essentially all the mutations in the genomes of two cancers.

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