A new study has shown that microarray technology, which allows researchers to simultaneously compare the degree to which hundreds of genes are expressed (converted into proteins), now makes it possible to more definitively identify skin lesions in mice that are thought to be at high risk of progressing to a type of cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). It is hoped that this technique will eventually lead to identification of high-risk SCC tumors in humans. This study appears in the online version of the journal Oncogene on May 21, 2007, and was conducted by researchers from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), Pennsylvania State University, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.>>> Discuss This Story
