Sentences with phrase «cancer study maps»

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Each can use it to study pretty much whatever he or she wants, so long as it fits PICI's strategic road map — and so long as it involves cancer immunotherapy.

«Future studies will not only seek to further map the function of AIM2 in infectious diseases, but also to track its role in other disorders, including cancer,» Man said.

But three studies from the past year may present a road map for singling out the cancer cells alone.

«Interactomes like this one make the whole debate of genes versus the environment a lot more sophisticated,» adds Vidal, who was not involved in the current study and who mapped a network involved in breast cancer susceptibility in 2007.

Researchers have now found a way to map those alternate routes by studying individual cancer cells, suggesting approaches for developing more effective combination therapies.

«Our results provide a starting point for therapeutic projects to decide where to focus their efforts,» said study co-first author Francisca Vazquez, a Cancer Dependency Map project leader.

That's given us the parts list,» said study co-senior author William Hahn, an institute member in the Broad Cancer Program, chief of the Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Dana - Farber, and a leader in the Cancer Dependency Map initiative, a joint effort spanning the Broad Institute and Dana - Farber.

He adds, «This study was actually a pilot project for a much larger effort within the Center for Molecular Therapeutics to map responses against drug combinations across hundreds of cancer cell lines, not just melanoma, and look for novel combinations that will benefit subsets of patients regardless of the particular type of tumor they have.

A Ludwig Cancer Research study published online September 14th in Nature reports a novel technique to map specific chemical (or «epigenetic») modifications made to the protein packaging of DNA using a small population of cells.

This study sheds light on how cancer cells leave the blood vessels to travel to a new part of the body, using a technique that allows researchers to map how cancer cells interact and exchange information with cells that make up the blood vessels.

«Analysis of metastatic prostate cancers suggests treatment options: Study maps out abnormal signaling pathways in prostate cancer cells and provides computational approaches to identify individualized targets for therapy.»

Their study used a pioneering genetic technique to analyse maps of DNA regions linked to an inherited risk of breast cancer and identify the actual genes involved in raising a woman's risk.

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And now some of those superfans from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Duke - NUS Medical School (along with some financial donors who just love durians enough to privately fund a study about them) have completely mapped the durian genome to find out, among other things, why the putrid stench, durians?

Methods: Using data from two separate clinical - pathologic cohort studies of aging and AD, the Religious Orders Study (ROS) and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), we compared odds of AD dementia proximate to death among participants... with and without a history of cancer.

Through these studies, she has redefined the molecular map of breast cancer, resulting in the discovery of novel patient subgroups with distinct clinical outcomes.

The studies were led by the same group who completed maps of the breast cancer and colorectal cancer genomes.

Similarly, a study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine found, via brain mapping, the cerebellum playing a role of attempting to bring immune function in cancer patients!

With so many dogs involved, he has initiated a nationwide study of canine cancers that involves gathering data about each dog's history and exposures, and than geospatially mapping of the cancer cases.

The dog genome is easier to parse for cancer - mapping studies because of the relatively closed genetic makeup of distinct breeds.

Her studies focus on genetic mapping as it relates to cancer in humans and their canine companions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency posts maps showing Superfund sites around the country (Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's major hazardous waste sites) as well as extensive information on radon, the invisible, odorless gas that two studies have linked to lung cancer.