Using a 'systems biology' approach to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 14:10
in Health & Medicine
Using a "systems biology" approach which focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological systems to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer, researchers for the first time have identified a set of proteins in the blood that change in abundance long before the cancer is clinically detectable. The findings, by co-authors Christopher Kemp, Ph.D., and Samir Hanash, M.D., Ph.D., members of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Human Biology and Public Health Sciences divisions, respectively, are published online ahead of the Aug. 1 print issue of Cancer Research.