Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) (IMAGE) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Caption CSHL Professor Christopher Vakoc and former postdoc Diogo Maia-Silva have shown that an especially devastating form of pancreatic cancer, known as basal-like PDAC (top two rows), is more dependent on the MED12 gene than classical PDAC (bottom two rows). Credit Vakoc lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Usage Restrictions Attribution required License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.