We transfected a “kinase-dead mutant” FGFR3-TACC3 fusion transcript (“FGFR3-TACC3 KD fusion”) into Ect1/E6E7, SiHa, and ME180 to investigate the significance of FGFR3 kinase activity in FGFR3-TACC3 fusion-positive cervical cancer. The gene discussed is TACC3; the disease is cervical cancer.