Research: comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications."
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spit...
Invading cancer cells leave the tumor to form distant metastases and are ultimately responsible for 90% of deaths in cancer. Reducing the ability of cancer cells to invade and metastasize cou...
Curative therapy for metastatic disease in solid malignancies remains frustratingly elusive due to the long recognized problem of tumor cell heterogeneity and emergence of treatment resistant...
Prostate cancer epithelial cells depend on androgens for their survival. Because of this dependence, androgen deprivation therapy is the major treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Such ther...
Cancer metastases develop when tumor cells known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed from a tumor, circulate through the blood stream and colonize a distant tissue. The number of CTCs...
DNASTAR offers an integrated suite of software for assembling and analyzing data from all major next-generation sequencing platforms. The software supports a variety of reference guided and d...
Developments in DNA sequencing technology have provided a unique opportunity for diagnosis and discovery of genetic alterations for rare diseases. Partnering with 20 academic centers in the U...
Many drugs currently used for anti-cancer therapy demonstrate significant inter-individual variability that cannot be normalized using body weight or body surface area. There is an increasing...
RNA-Seq allows the simultaneous observation of gene expression levels, mutations in the coding sequences, splice variants and gene fusions, which are especially important in cancer studies. A...
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
Recent data have confirmed the ability of cardiac troponin (cTn) measurements to identify those who are developing cardiotoxicity in response to potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapeutic agen...
The widespread adoption of precision medicine in oncology requires: a compendium of therapies targeting the genetic vulnerabilities of cancer; the diagnostic tools capable of generating a pr...
While Melanoma is very curable and treatable when detected early, late stage melanoma has had a very poor outcome. In 2013, it is estimated that over 80,000 patients in the US will develop me...
While the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test has been available since 1986 and FDA-approved for the early detection of prostate cancer since the early 1990s, 2012 marked a critical in...
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most significant causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In about 6-7% of NSCLC, rearrangements involving the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase...
The remarkable diversity we see between different cell types in the human body is governed by the specificity attained through transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory programs. Cancer is a...
While androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the primary treatment modality for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), treatment is uniformly marked by progression to castration-...
Cancer cells have historically been classified by microscopic analysis of blood smears and tissue sections. Current technologies use molecular techniques to categorize and classify tumor cell...
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well a...
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, a...
"SuperSelective" primers, by virtue of their unique design, enable only a few molecules of a mutant sequence to generate amplicons in conventional, real-time PCR assays without interference...
Cancer and diabetes are complex diseases that have proven difficult to treat in the clinics. Until recently, most efforts have focused on hitting individual therapeutic targets cleanly. Unfor...
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spit...
Invading cancer cells leave the tumor to form distant metastases and are ultimately responsible for 90% of deaths in cancer. Reducing the ability of cancer cells to invade and metastasize cou...
Curative therapy for metastatic disease in solid malignancies remains frustratingly elusive due to the long recognized problem of tumor cell heterogeneity and emergence of treatment resistant...
Prostate cancer epithelial cells depend on androgens for their survival. Because of this dependence, androgen deprivation therapy is the major treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Such ther...
Cancer metastases develop when tumor cells known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed from a tumor, circulate through the blood stream and colonize a distant tissue. The number of CTCs...
DNASTAR offers an integrated suite of software for assembling and analyzing data from all major next-generation sequencing platforms. The software supports a variety of reference guided and d...
Developments in DNA sequencing technology have provided a unique opportunity for diagnosis and discovery of genetic alterations for rare diseases. Partnering with 20 academic centers in the U...
Many drugs currently used for anti-cancer therapy demonstrate significant inter-individual variability that cannot be normalized using body weight or body surface area. There is an increasing...
RNA-Seq allows the simultaneous observation of gene expression levels, mutations in the coding sequences, splice variants and gene fusions, which are especially important in cancer studies. A...
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
Recent data have confirmed the ability of cardiac troponin (cTn) measurements to identify those who are developing cardiotoxicity in response to potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapeutic agen...
The widespread adoption of precision medicine in oncology requires: a compendium of therapies targeting the genetic vulnerabilities of cancer; the diagnostic tools capable of generating a pr...
While Melanoma is very curable and treatable when detected early, late stage melanoma has had a very poor outcome. In 2013, it is estimated that over 80,000 patients in the US will develop me...
While the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test has been available since 1986 and FDA-approved for the early detection of prostate cancer since the early 1990s, 2012 marked a critical in...
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most significant causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In about 6-7% of NSCLC, rearrangements involving the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase...
The remarkable diversity we see between different cell types in the human body is governed by the specificity attained through transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory programs. Cancer is a...
While androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the primary treatment modality for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), treatment is uniformly marked by progression to castration-...
Cancer cells have historically been classified by microscopic analysis of blood smears and tissue sections. Current technologies use molecular techniques to categorize and classify tumor cell...
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well a...
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, a...
"SuperSelective" primers, by virtue of their unique design, enable only a few molecules of a mutant sequence to generate amplicons in conventional, real-time PCR assays without interference...
Cancer and diabetes are complex diseases that have proven difficult to treat in the clinics. Until recently, most efforts have focused on hitting individual therapeutic targets cleanly. Unfor...