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British scientists have found thousands of genes linked to the survival of cancer, including haematological cancers, in the largest research project of its kind. The Wellcome Sanger Institute and another research organisation, Open Targets, published their findings in Nature. The scientists used CAS9 knock-out screens to disrupt genes in 30 types of human cancer cell lines, targeting 20,000 protein coding genes.   Researchers report they have identified more than 600 genetic targets across these cancer cell-lines as potential therapeutic targets. They have called their findings the Cancer Dependency Map (DEPMAP), as it outlines the cancer's vulnerabilities. The cancers in the study included the most common – lung, colon...