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medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-28

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedA family of mutations seen in about 20% of human cancers drives malignancy by changing the accessibility of genes to a particular regulatory protein, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe study, published Oct. 28 in Nature, focused on the BAF complex, whose mutations are found in tumors such as lymphoma, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and liver cancer.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe scientists showed that BAF mutations allow the three-dimensional architecture of DNA to be reshaped by CTCF, shifting gene activity in a direction that promotes malignancy, and deleting CTCF in an animal model reverses the effect.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedIn mouse models and human patient data, the team found confirmatory evidence of CTCF's role in BAF-mutant cancers, including evidence that disruptions of CTCF are associated with better patient outcomes.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe results point to CTCF, PBAF and ISWI as potential targets for future therapies in cancers with BAF mutations.View evidenceHide evidence

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Digital Diplomacy and the Changing Nature of International Relations | Meritorious Journal of Social Sciences and Management

Scholarly Journal · 2026 · Crossref

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NATURE AND CULTURE: AN ECOLINGUISTICS’ ANALYSIS OF IS A RIVER ALIVE BY ROBERT MACFARLANE

Scholarly Journal · 2026 · Crossref

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