An image of cells.
A team of Toronto researchers, led by Dr. Jason Moffat, with a contribution from Dr. Stephane Angers, have switched off, one by one, almost 18,000 genes—90 per cent of the entire human genome—to find the genes that are essential for cell survival. These results were published in the latest issue of Cell.
Read more about this research here: http://news.utoronto.ca/new-gene-map-reveals-cancers-achilles-heel
