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Cell lines battle cancer

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Large panels of human cancer cell lines, profiled at the DNA, RNA and chromosomal levels and tested for sensitivity to approved and potential drugs, will accelerate the search for new cancer therapies. See Article p.570 & Letter p.603

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Figure 1: The widening web of cancer cell lines.

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  1. John N. Weinstein is in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Department of Systems Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.,

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Weinstein, J. Cell lines battle cancer. Nature 483, 544–545 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483544a

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