Sharmila Shankar1, Suthakar Ganapathy1, Sunil R. Hingorani2, Rakesh K. Srivastava1 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA 75703, 2Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109…

Colon cancer is a global killer. Each year, more than one million people worldwide are diagnosed with it; more than half a million die from it. If diagnosed early enough, the standard treatment involves surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or targeted drug…

SATB2 is a novel “transcription factor” – a protein “switch” that controls which genes are turned on or off inside a cancer cell. Drs. Rakesh Srivastava and Sharmila Shankar identified it in the so-called “cancer stem cells” – cancer cells that behave…