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Researchers at the Clínic decipher the map of how leukemia works. 

The discovery opens the door to developing new treatments against this type of cancer.

Summary:

The clinical research team at Clinic Hospital has managed to develop a genome map of people with leukemia. These researchers have discovered that people who have this disease have about 500 alterations, which they share among them derived from 3 families of proteins.

This detailed analysis has discovered that these three proteins stick to DNA, thus beginning to form and generate the 500 genomic alterations. The interesting results, were published in the journal Nature, have also been posted on the network so that different experts can also study it by their account 

link: 

http://www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/20180521/443751560125/descifran-como-funciona-el-genoma-de-la-leucemia-mas-frecuente.html

Publication date: 21/5/18

Scienific field: Medicine.  

Glossary:

Genome: A full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.

Gene map: An arrangement of genes on a chromosome.

Leukemia: Any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.

Analysis comment: 

This discovery is very important because thanks to it we are about to discover that they have in common all these patients and we could even know what is the cause of this disease. although it is already known that the cause is not genetic but environmental. This discovery is very important also because it has been an innovation in the knowledge of leukemia, as you can see in the summary of this news, three proteins cause 500 genetic alterations that before the appearance of these 3 proteins did not exist. 

In my opinion this discovery is very important because I think it could mean a total change of view towards this disease and it is also a step towards the cure of this disease.

To finish I would like to say also that it is very interesting also to see how a disease that apparently has a very difficult cure as we know more about it.