Gene expression reprogramming may allow cancer cell growth as well as normal differentiation
Gene expression is the process of converting the genetic information encoded in DNA into a final gene product such as a protein or any of several types of RNA. Scientists have long thought that the gene programs regulated by different physiological processes throughout the body are robustly pre-determined and relatively fixed for every specialized cell. But a new study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reveals the unsuspected plasticity of some of these gene expression programs. … Read the full story from the UCSD Newsroom
Co-principal investigator of the study is Dr. M. Geoffrey Rosenfeld (pictured at left). M. Geoffrey Rosenfeld, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.