Insight offers new angle of attack on variety of brain tumours

A newly published insight into the biology of many kinds of less-aggressive but still lethal brain tumours, or gliomas, opens up a wide array of possibilities for new therapies, according to scientists at Brown University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In paper published online Dec. 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, they describe how a genetic mutation leads to an abnormal metabolic process in the tumours that could be targeted by drug makers...

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