Sentences with phrase «common tumor cell lines»

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Coffin described how lab workers there had transplanted human prostate tumor cells into an immune - deficient lab mouse, a common procedure for procuring a colony of cells, or a human cell line, for further study.

The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Oncogene used next - generation sequencing technologies to perform the most detailed DNA - based analysis to date of 25 commonly used bladder cancer cell lines, allowing researchers to match patient tumors with their closest genetic cell line match, and demonstrated genetic alterations that may make cells more or less sensitive to common therapies.