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 Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:00 am Post subject: Hiding in Plain Sight: Finding New Targets for Old Drugs |
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In late 2011, mice with lung cancer had their tumors reduced by an anti?depressant called imipramine. The basis of the study was the idea that the cancer switches certain genes on, while imipramine turns the same genes off. A neat trick, but no one would have thought to test it if it hadn't been for the analytics developed by Stanford professor and data scientist Atul Butte.
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