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Police know how to spot the guilty party: He’s the one trying not to stand out. Now scientists are applying the same principle to finding genes responsible for cancer.
Typically, researchers assume that underactive or overactive genes in diseased cells must be the ones causing an illness. In the new approach, cancer researchers looked instead for genes displaying particularly constant activity levels over time — that is, relatively constant conversion of the gene into templates for making proteins.