Predicting cancer cells’ response to chemotherapy

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 08:41 in Health & Medicine

Many chemotherapy drugs work by damaging cancer cells’ DNA so severely that the cells are forced to commit cellular suicide. However, these drugs don’t work for all patients: If cells can repair the DNA damage, they may survive treatment. MIT researchers have now developed a way to test cells’ ability to perform several different types […]

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