Press Release No. 17
Berlin
Disappearance of Genetic Material Allows Tumor Cells to Grow
Loss of a gene regulator is crucial for a rare type of skin cancer - Scientists at the Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik Berlin, and four other German institutes have succeeded in proving a specific gene loss in a certain human lymphoma, the genesis of which is largely unexplained to date.