A New Way to Target Cancers Using ‘Synthetic Lethality’
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 10:20
in Biology & Nature
With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of “synthetic lethality,” exploiting cancer-specific genetic defects to identify targets that are uniquely essential to the survival of cancer cells. Synthetic lethality results when non-lethal mutations in different genes become deadly when combined in cells. In a new paper published online […]