NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
The Broad Institute and Sanger Institute announced yesterday (March 28) details from their separate cancer cell line databases, the largest such repositories of genomic and drug profiling data to date. With preliminary results published in two Nature papers, the databases should help researchers identify which drugs to use against which cancers to streamline drug development efforts.
“This continues to move us towards cancer being understood as a molecular disease instead of an anatomical disease,” said Eileen Dolan, who studies pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago and was not involved in either study. “It will help us understand our existing drugs, as well as new drugs, to make more informed decisions in phase I and phase II trials.”
In recent years, researchers have become increasingly aware ...
