
'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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