Xu aims for grasp of cancer spread
When he started college in Shanghai, China in the 1970s, Tian Xu did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He had never even heard of the word “genetics.” But 30 years later, Xu, vice chairman of genetics at the School of Medicine, conducts cutting-edge research with fruit flies, worms and mice that seeks to understand what goes on in genes when cancer strikes.
Xu’s lab — which is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is located in the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine — aims to create technology to help scientists understand disease and human biology so that...
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