By introducing cancer-causing mutations into healthy skin cells step-by-step, Broad scientists have created models of skin cancer that can reveal the effects of mutations.
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Few know that melanoma, or melanoma, which is most common in Mexico, is not caused by ultraviolet radiation, as it does in people of white skin and European genetic ancestry. However, the world’s largest cancer research centers have no priority for studying what might be the specific genetic mutations of Mexicans and Latin Americans that generate cancer cells in the skin.