Researchers uncover what drives aggressive bone cancer

Study identifies a novel mechanism driving osteosarcoma and provides insights to help predict patient outcomes

A new mutation mechanism driving osteosarcoma. Image credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI

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Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution

Valle-Inclan JE.,

Cell 14 January 2025

10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.005

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