Breast cancer case study could inform clinical trials
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CSHL Professor David Spector and graduate student Disha Aggarwal have tracked levels of long non-coding RNA MALAT1 over the course of one woman’s experience with triple-negative breast cancer. Their findings could help inform clinical trials of a drug targeting MALAT1. They also suggest MALAT1 may play a role in determining whether and where the cancer will spread.
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