March 20, 2025 9:04 AM

Scientists uncover potential new trigger for stomach cancer

Scientists have carefully examined somatic mutations in stomach lining tissue to uncover mutational mechanisms that can lead to cancer. They also discovered evidence of a possible new cause of stomach cancer, which warrants further investigation. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the University of Hong Kong, and their collaborators sequenced the whole genomes of normal stomach lining samples from individuals with and without gastric cancer. The ...