Individual Tumors Contain a Previously Unknown Range of Genetic Variation - Technology Networks

Spatial transcriptomics has been used to create a cross-sectional map of a whole prostate, revealing a greater range of genetic variation between healthy and cancerous cells than was previously thought to exist.

Understanding which cells give rise to which areas of cancer can improve our understanding of how a tumour has grown and developed, including how it has changed genetically, over time. This has been … [+3270 chars]

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