Growing Brain Cancer in Petri Dishes

Growing Brain Cancer in Petri Dishes: Introducing genome-editing plasmids into minibrain organoids to study brain tumor formation.

Growing Brain Cancer in Petri Dishes

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Post published:July 30, 2018

Brain tumors are aggressive and deadly cancers, yet it has been difficult to study them in the laboratory. A new Nature Methods paper reports a ground-breaking method to grow tumors…

Epigenetic Landscape: A gibbon within a epigenetic landscape, swinging across a histone jungle and a DNA desert.

An Epigenetic Jungle

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Post published:July 23, 2018

A gibbon is swinging across a river within an epigenetic landscape, which regulates compaction and expression of our DNA. The arid desert illustrates loosely packed DNA containing actively expressed genes,…