Researchers exploit genetic 'co-dependence' to kill treatment-resistant tumour cells

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 09:42 in Biology & Nature

Cancer cells fuelled by the mutant KRAS oncogene, which makes them notoriously difficult to treat, can be killed by blocking a more vulnerable genetic partner of KRAS, report scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT...

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