CNRS: Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be
activated in brain tumours? Such a phenomenon, though surprising, has
been observed in certain types of medulloblastoma, paediatric tumours of
the cerebellum. Researchers from the CNRS, Institut Curie, Inserm and
Université Paris-Sud1, together with researchers at St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, United States), have pinpointed
the role of these genes in the tumour process, thus offering new
therapeutic targets. Their findings appear in the 12 March 2018 edition
of Cancel Cell.