‘Junk DNA’ drives cancer growth

Junk DNA that becomes active may be a new driving force behind Hodgkin’s lymphoma and similar blood-borne cancers.

Eurekalert: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/uol-dd043010.php

Reference

University of Leeds, UK, the Charité University Medical School and the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany. Research published in Nature Medicine

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