Talks about possible cancer cure - Professor Winston Hide

We closed off the show with an interview with Professor Winston Hide - Visiting Professor of Bioinformatics. We were talking about a study that might produce a possible cancer cure. It is reported that researchers at UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) form part of a team of scientists from Japan, Australia, Europe and the USA that have discovered the genetic instructions cells use to switch from immature growing cells to fully mature organs. The project has utilised in-depth sequencing technologies and invented novel bioinformatics methods to discover the key factors that underlie genome-wide changes in gene expression that occur during cell development. The study of cell growth is intimately linked to the need to understand what goes wrong when we get cancer but Professor Hide explained more. For more information this work has been published in the top international Journal Nature Genetics as an advance online publication: www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html