COSMIC News

Acral melanoma: The research closing the care gap for Mexican melanoma patients

8 Mar 2023

Dr Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza delves into her research on the genetic causes of acral lentiginous melanoma. Explore the role COSMIC played and how studies like this could help to close the care gap for lesser researched diseases.

“Subtraction Analysis”: COSMIC’s role in defining causes and consequences of clonal haematopoiesis

23 Jan 2023

Discover the most comprehensive publication, so far, of inherited risk factors that confer risk of clonal haematopoiesis and the role COSMIC played in exploring upstream causes & downstream consequences of the disease.

From diagnosis to remission- Haematological cancer research to look out for in v97

22 Nov 2022

With 1.24 million yearly occurrences, haematological cancers are the fifth most common type of cancer in the world. Here’s a sneak peak into three papers curated as part of our v97 update, each highlighting unique areas of research improving the outcomes for haematological cancer patients.

Copy Number Signatures: A scalable research and clinical tool?

15 Jun 2022

Copy Number Signatures are the latest addition to COSMIC Mutational Signatures, I caught up with one of the leads, Dr Ludmil Alexandrov, to discuss the key findings, utility of the data, and hopes for the future.

What are the emerging trends in cancer research? Our five key-takeaways from AACR-2022

9 May 2022

Read about the five emerging trends we took away from our time at AACR-2022

Closing the care gap for rare cancers: Three examples in COSMIC

3 Feb 2022

World Cancer Day is asking us to pull together to #ClosetheCareGap and remove barriers to treatment. So how is COSMIC playing a part? By tackling rare cancers head on.

In the driving seat: An interview with Cancer Mutation Census’s Senior Bioinformatician, Bhavana Harsha

25 Nov 2021

COSMIC's Cancer Mutation Census (CMC) is a new tool that identifies and characterises the likely somatic mutations driving cancer. Read more about the development and data behind CMC with Senior Bioinformatician, Bhavana Harsha.

Digging for rare finds - three breast cancer publications to keep a watch for in V95

1 Nov 2021

Curating the future of precision oncology: An interview with Steve Jupe

29 Sep 2021

COSMIC Release v94 is live!

28 May 2021

a focus on rare lung cancers and rare pancreatic cancers, and curation of somatic mutations in 12 hallmark apoptosis genes. Along with this, 9 cancer hallmark genes data are also updated. Find out more before exploring the v94 release.

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