Researchers create tool to help unravel secrets of cancer

An interdisciplinary team of chemists, oncologists and one statistician at Stanford has taken the first step toward developing a technique that can identify the origin of certain types of cancer — a potential boon to doctors prescribing therapies for their patients. “The same cancer can occur because of different genes, but in certain cases the aggressiveness and the type of treatment actually depend a lot on what oncogene caused that cancer,” said Livia Eberlin, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry and lead author of the paper. Read more here.