During translation, cells 'read' genetic information in the form of messenger RNA and use this as a blueprint to synthesize proteins. Translation occurs continuously in living cells and is executed by organelles called ribosomes.
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With the growth and expansion of mouse and rat transgenic models in recent years, the demand for surgically altered models mimicking human diseases is growing at an amazing rate. Surgical pro...
The NCI's Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) is a comprehensive genomic characterization initiative to determine the molecular changes that drive th...
Molecular chaperones help nascent polypeptides fold correctly and multimeric protein complexes assemble productively, while minimizing the danger of aggregation in the protein-rich intracellu...
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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...
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Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
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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...
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...
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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-...
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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...
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
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...
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With the rapid rise in the number of therapeutic options for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) comes increasingly complicated treatment decision-making, emphasizing the nee...
The knowledge of molecular alterations involved in colon carcinoma (CRC) and non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) has significantly increased in the past few years. Molecular subgroups of t...
As Chief of Scientific Intelligence at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, Dr. Hoon interacts with external academic, industry, and government agencies to develop innovative translational rese...
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The use of ultrahigh throughput diagnostic tests that determine genetic sequence variation to guide patient care is rapidly expanding, fueled by the enormous growth in sequencing platform dev...
The role of the human genome in normal and patho-biology is crucial. Applied in cancer care and in a variety of unknown disorder settings, it can provide key insights and crucial diagnostic/p...
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
MicroRNAs are short non-coding cellular regulators of gene expression. Each microRNA controls the expression of a large set of genes, and microRNAs collectively, may regulate more than half o...
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There has been considerable debate in the scientific and clinical communities regarding the return of results from genome sequencing to physicians and patients. Questions surrounding which he...
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During IVF procedures pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows for genetic profiling of embryos prior to replacement. Most PGD procedures during IVF are performed to select chromosomal...
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The goal of personalized medicine is to customize healthcare to the individual patient. Pharmacogenomics, the analysis of how a patient's genetic makeup affects the individual's response to c...
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The human species is particularly prone to chromosome segregation errors during maternal meiosis in the egg and during post zygotic mitosis in the preimplantation embryo. In fact, aneuploidy...
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
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Codon-optimization describes gene engineering approaches that use synonymous codon changes to increase protein production. It is used extensively for expressing recombinant protein drugs, gen...