Researchers of the Melnick Lab recently published a study identifying a key mutation that disrupts the B-cell natural selection process during immune response, leading to aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma within the body.
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The key to understanding how the most aggressive lymphomas arise and resist current therapies may lie in mutations that disrupt a critical natural selection process among antibody-producing B cells, according to a multi-institutional preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.