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As you probably know, there is a lot of literature on the correlation between Streptococcus bovis and colorectal cancer, but very little on possible mechanisms.
In an editorial (Streptococcus bovis: Causal or incidental involvement in cancer of the colon? in the International Journal of Cancer 119(9):xi-xii), Harald zur Hausen referring to this paper:
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In the Sanger approach, DNA would be isolated from the biopsy and would contain both normal alleles and mutant alleles of genes associated with the development of the tumour. If, for example, PCR amplification was then used to derive a sample of a target template region, this material would end up being sequenced as a mixed population: the derived sequence ...
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Cancer is a highly genetic disease, and much is known about how different genetic mutations contribute to the generation, growth, proliferation, metastasis, and control of tumors. Jackson Labs (commonly known as Jax in the research community) provides literally thousands of strains of mice, each bred/genetically engineered to have certain genotypes and/or ...
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The T315l mutation of BCR/ABL gene produce the complete resistance of CML leukemia to all currently available BCR/ABL inhibitors.
There is a idea that is not yet tested for such patients - allogenic hematopoietic transplatation.
More information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20657522
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