Tumor biology

Abstract

Over the past 30 years, progress in molecular biology and genetics has yielded an enormous amount of information on the genes involved in nervous system development and the development of various types of brain tumors. Cancer research has generated a rich and complex body of knowledge, revealingcancer to be a disease involving dynamic changes in the genome. In the near future, new high-throughput technologies, including DNA chip technology, tissue microarrays, and proteomics, will bring further knowledge but also increase the difficulty of keeping track of an increasing bank of data that is already dauntingly complex.