Peer-Reviewed Publication CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLÓGICAS (CNIO) FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: IVÁN PLAZA-MENACHO, SENIOR AUTHOR, AND FIRST AUTHORS JULIA CONTRERAS AND HIPÓLITO NICOLÁS CUESTA HERNÁNDEZ.view more CREDIT: ESTHER SÁNCHEZ / CNIOIn the late 1970s, the relationship between the c-Src gene and cancer was discovered. The first oncogene was identified.Since then, c-Src has been found...
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Treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome by hypomethylating agents may activate an oncogene
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hypomethylating agents (HMA) are currently used as a first-line treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and increasingly in other diseases, but their mechanism of action is not clear. HMAs may affect many genes and could potentially activate an oncogene—a gene that contributes to the development...