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Cori Bargmann on the Genetics of Transparent Worms, Supertasters and Cancer

The Joy of x

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Cancer in Rats - A Novel Cancer Treatment in Humans

Itso i met corey, the scientist who identified this mutated jean in a rat that was allowing tumors to grow. She helped crack the code of the whole nero blastoma cancer system in this rat. And around the same time we were working on it, a group id, a group working in human cells, identified it and called it her to. This led to the development of a drug called herseptin, which is at this point used to treat about a hundred thousand women with breast cancer a year.

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