Overview
- Reviews use of the powerful Drosophila model for cancer studies from gene discovery to models of disease progression, to drug screening.
- Highlights the challenges in cancer research and how the humble fruit-fly model can help
- Offers guidance for researchers to develop new models, concepts and therapeutic strategies against cancer
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1167)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Readers will discover the beauty of the fly model’s genetic simplicity and the vast arsenal of powerful genetic tools enabling its efficient and adaptable use. This model organism has provided a unique opportunity to address questions regarding cancer initiation and development that would be extremely challenging in other model systems.
This book provides a useful resource for a researcher who wishes to learn about and apply the Drosophila model to tackle fundamental questions in cancer biology, and to find new ways to fight against this devastating disease.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Drosophila Model in Cancer
Editors: Wu-Min Deng
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23629-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23628-1Published: 26 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23631-1Published: 26 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23629-8Published: 13 September 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 250
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology