The technology quantifies the efficacy of genome-editing methods and identifies the predominant types of insertions and deletions in a targeted pool of cells.
The seven-parameter proposal potentially offers a way to assess how the immune system and a cancer interact on a broader level in order to better guide treatment.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A group of Dutch-led research partners will use a €1.2 million ($1.5 million) grant awarded under a collaboration with Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C) to fund a genomics-based project seeking to use tumor profiles to predict patient response to cancer treatments.
"We will use multiple 'omics' technologies to ask which kinase signaling pathways are activated in colon cancer," an Agendia spokesperson said of the collaboration, which will also provide independent validation of the company's ColoPrint colon cancer recurrence test.
Customers might want to consider what they might learn about their risk of diseases like Alzheimer's before snagging the genetic testing kits that are on many gift guides this year, NJ.com writes.
Stat News reports that the pause on procuring fetal tissue for intramural US National Institutes of Health research will soon affect additional labs there.
