FULLERTON, Calif. (October 17, 2007) – Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, a Beckman Coulter company, announced today that its Genomic Services played an important role in a newly released study from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The study follows a major report last year that announced the discovery of 200 genes linked to breast and colon cancers. This second report completes the study of the vast majority of protein-coding genes and catalogs the genetic changes that occur during tumorigenesis. Three Agencourt individuals – James Hartigan, Douglas R. Smith and Erick Suh – were among the authors of the study, “The Genomic Landscape of Human Breast and Colorectal Cancers,” published in Science Express last week.
