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Science & ResearchSep 2, 2026

Characterizing the landscape of gene process dependencies in cancer

Precision oncology aims to tailor cancer treatment to tumor genetics but it currently benefits only a small fraction of patients, in part because the primary focus is to match drug targets to single genes.

Precision oncology aims to tailor cancer treatment to tumor genetics but it currently benefits only a small fraction of patients, in part because the primary focus is to match drug targets to single genes. The Cancer Dependency Map Project (DepMap) aimed to characterize the…

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