Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for October 2013

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

New Discoveries for Cancer Risk: Researchers Worldwide Take Part in one of History's Largest Scientific Consortium New Discoveries for Cancer Risk: Researchers Worldwide Take Part in one of History's Largest Scientific Consortium

Hundreds of researchers from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia have joined together in a consortium to identify the genetic basis of the five most common forms of cancer - breast, prostate, lung, ovarian and colorectal. The group, called the OncoArray Consortium, developed a new customized genotyping tool - the OncoArray - manufactured by the U.S. genomics firm Illumina, Inc.