Exai Bio, a next-generation liquid biopsy company, today announced it has raised a $67.5 million Series A financing to accelerate development of its non...
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Read More »How much do you know about circRNA research?
circRNAs: uncovering the functions of novel non-coding sequences – from developmental biology to anti-cancer therapies Summary What is circRNA? (Research on the function of circRNA; research hotspots in life sciences and medicine) Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a new class of ...
Read More »FUNGI – Fusion Gene Integration Toolset
Fusion genes are both useful cancer biomarkers and important drug targets. Finding relevant fusion genes is challenging due to genomic instability resulting in a high number of passenger events...
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is considered as a significant cause of death among cancer-related mortality rates [1]. The guidelines promoted by different medical associations keep pushing and promoting effective screening programs, which have increased the early diagnosis of CRC and vastly ...
Read More »RNA sequencing dispels fears human stem cells contain cancer-causing mutations
Pioneering new research has made a pivotal breakthrough that dispel concerns that human stem cells could contain cancer-causing mutations...
Read More »Grant awarded to Qlucore to expand diagnostic software solution for improved clinical diagnostics of cancer, with a focus on RNA-profiling
Qlucore, leading software provider of powerful visualization-based bioinformatics data analysis tools for research and precision diagnostics, is working with leading scientific experts at Lund University (Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and in China to develop new diagnostics methods and software solutions ...
Read More »Researchers leverage whole transcriptome RNA sequencing and machine learning to improve lung cancer risk stratification
Bronchoscopy for suspected lung cancer has low diagnostic sensitivity, rendering many inconclusive results. The Bronchial Genomic Classifier (BGC) was developed to help with patient management by...
Read More »Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals details about individual cells in pancreatic tumors
TGen and HonorHealth investigators suggest this granular analysis could lead to better treatments for pancreatic cancer patients Led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, and by HonorHealth Research and...
Read More »New analytical model detects breast cancer mutations in RNA-Seq data
We hope that SCAN-B RNA sequencing will be in clinical use as early as next year, mainly to help in the identification of which breast tumours are...
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