Kill the cancer, not the patient: New toxicity testing approach ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 23:00

(Jackson Laboratory) With a new two-year, $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill is launching a radical new approach to testing three chemotherapeutic drugs for potential toxic effects, using an outbred mouse population that approximates the genetic diversity observed in human populations.


 

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