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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(14):980-982; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn249
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Ontario Institute Offers New Model of Cancer Research

Ken Garber

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Ten next-generation DNA sequencers fill two rooms in the gleaming MaRS Centre, a modern laboratory and office building in downtown Toronto. These machines symbolize today's genetics. They belong to the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR), a 3-year-old nonprofit corporation that will soon use the machines to sequence the genomes of hundreds of human pancreatic cancers to identify cancer-associated gene alterations.


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Next-generation DNA sequencers in Toronto. OICR will soon employ these machines to sequence hundreds of pancreatic cancers to identify cancer-causing gene alterations.

 
Five floors below, near the MaRS Centre reception area, sits a plain wooden desk. For Canadians, the symbolism here is equally potent: It's the desk of Frederick Banting, M.D., the University of Toronto surgeon who, with student Charles Best, discovered insulin in 1921. Within 2 years, insulin was fully available commercially and was transforming the lives of diabetic children and adults. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ontario and the World


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