An international team of scientists is one step closer to figuring out what causes some children to get medulloblastoma, the most common form of malignant brain cancer in very young children. Experts with MAGIC, short for Medulloblastoma Advanced Genomics International Consortium, say that by identifying what goes wrong in brain cells, better and more targeted treatments for this cancer can be developed. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Northcott PA, et al. Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes. Nature. 2012 Aug 2;488(7409):49-56. PMID: 22832581
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