'A fourth rev­o­lu­tion in can­cer ther­a­pies': ARCH-backed Bound­less Bio flash­es big check, makes big­ger promis­es in de­but

It was the cel­lu­lar equiv­a­lent of open­ing your car door and find­ing an ac­tive, roar­ing en­gine in the dri­ver seat.

Sci­en­tists learned strands of DNA could oc­ca­sion­al­ly ap­pear out­side of its tra­di­tion­al home in the nu­cle­us in the 1970s, when they ap­peared as lit­tle, in­nocu­ous cir­cles on mi­cro­scopes; in­ex­plic­a­ble but ap­par­ent­ly in­nate. But not un­til UC San Diego’s Paul Mis­chel pub­lished his first study in Sci­ence in 2014 did re­searchers re­al­ize these cir­cles were not on­ly ac­tive but po­ten­tial­ly over­ac­tive and dri­ving some can­cer tu­mors’ su­per­hu­man growth.

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