Loss of a DNA repair system creates a unique vulnerability in many cancer types
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 09:40
in Health & Medicine
Cancer cells adapt to potentially fatal mutations and other molecular malfunctions by adjusting one or more other genes' activity, in the process becoming dependent on those genes for their survival and growth. The resulting genetic dependencies may provide targets for developing new precision-guided drugs or other cancer treatment strategies. Reporting in Nature, researchers describe one such vulnerability shared by a large subset of colon, gastric, endometrial, and ovarian cancer cell lines.