Cancer treatment is evolving from the empirical administration of chemotherapeutics to the precise deployment of molecularly targeted agents. This new paradigm depends on the ability to monitor therapy using molecular signatures of target inhibition in tumor tissue. Genetically engineered mice may prove useful for deriving such signatures, as shown for an analog of the anticancer drug rapamycin (pages 594–601).
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Mellinghoff, I., Sawyers, C. TORward AKTually useful mouse models. Nat Med 10, 579–580 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0604-579
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