Examples include the study of allelic variation in the human genome and the development of computational methods for the discovery of cancer - associated genes and
diagnostic cancer markers using genomic profiles derived from different tumor types.
Not exact matches
«Our research translates this technological development over to the biosciences and offers the possibility of a new biomedical
diagnostics technique capable of detecting the presence of even a single
cancer marker molecule.»
Floryne Buishand, 30, from the Netherlands, is a postdoctoral researcher at the National
Cancer Institute / NIH, Bethesda, USA, studies genomic changes associated with endocrine
cancers with the ultimate goal of identifying novel
diagnostic and prognostic
markers, as well as novel therapeutic targets.
AMACR gene identified by Kimmel
Cancer Center researchers as a prevention and early diagnostic marker for prostate c
Cancer Center researchers as a prevention and early
diagnostic marker for prostate
cancercancer.
Finally, we ask whether the mechanical differences between normal and
cancer cells can be used as
diagnostic or prognostic
markers of
cancer progression.
ID1 gene identified by Kimmel
Cancer Center scientists as an early
diagnostic marker for melanoma.
(PSA is secreted from other female body tissues, as well, and may be a possible
diagnostic marker for breast disease, among other conditions, just as it is for prostate
cancer in men.)