Genetic scientists have developed a technology that shows how genes in healthy stomach cells are altered when they become cancerous, offering the prospect of changing the way that stomach cancer is diagnosed and managed. [s]Medical News Today[/s] reports that the study overcame the problem that large amounts of DNA are needed for current methods to investigate certain features of cancerous stomach cells. Study of the same laboratory reactions was achieved with much smaller amounts of DNA by the team from the [b]Genome Institute of Singapore[/b], led by Professor Patrick Tan. ‘Due to quantum leaps in the scale and throughput of DNA and bio-computing technologies, complete human genomes can now be sequenced in only a few days, at a very low cost,’ he is quoted as saying.
[link url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/279533.php]Full Medical News Today report[/link]
[link url=http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140710/ncomms5361/full/ncomms5361.html]Nature Communications abstract[/link]