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Cancer Genomics
Cancer Genomics is a relatively new research area that takes advantage of recent technological advances to study the human genome, meaning our full set of DNA. Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer.
MAY 25, 2017 | 6:00 AM
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
MAY 16, 2017 | 9:00 AM
EVENT DETAILS:DATE: May 16, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETThermo Fisher Scientific is proud to present the SyncD3 webinar series. As a thought-leader in science our first commit...
MAY 11, 2017 | 12:00 PM
It was 10 years ago that Illumina first launched the Genome Analyzer II, the world’s first high-throughput sequencing platform. That system could produce one billion bps of sequen...
MAY 11, 2017 | 9:00 AM
The study of inherited genomic variation through genome wide association studies (GWAS) promised to provide key biologic insight into common diseases of public health significance such as obe...
MAY 11, 2017 | 7:30 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Genetic testing currently plays a relatively niche role in healthcare, with testing typically limited to single genes and targeting a relatively narrow range of diseases, including paediatric...
MAY 11, 2017 | 6:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
In this seminar, I will discuss issues in transcriptome analysis. I will first talk about core aspects - how we analyze the activity patterns of genes in model organisms and humans. I will fo...
MAY 10, 2017 | 10:30 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Although ultrahigh-throughput RNA-sequencing has become the dominant technology for genome-wide transcriptional profiling, the vast majority of RNA-seq studies typically profile only tens of...
MAY 10, 2017 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses have identified genetic associations with a wide range of human phenotypes. However, many of the...
MAY 10, 2017 | 7:30 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Cell free DNA (cfDNA) analysis for the purpose of diagnostics is currently practiced for non-invasive prenatal screening of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA), and is anticipated to be leveraged fo...
MAY 10, 2017 | 6:00 AM
When studying the transcriptome, most of our inferences revolve around changes in average expression. However, more recent examples have demonstrated that analysis of the variability of gene...
APR 26, 2017 | 9:00 AM
DATE: April 26, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETBiopsies from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal adenocarcinoma generally produce small, heterogeneous samples with li...
APR 25, 2017 | 10:00 AM
DATE: April 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETImmunotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising options for the future treatment of a growing number of cancers and is to...
APR 19, 2017 | 4:00 AM
DATE: April 20th, 2017TIME: 10:00AM SGT, 11:00AM KST, 12:00PM AEST, 2:00PM NZSTWith increasing breadth and depth of genomics studies across a range of cancers, it is now apparent that t...
