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  • Biomarkers Take Center Stage
    ... nucleic acids and circulating tumor cells being queried as well. "After that we hope to do a 100- or 150-patient trial when we have some idea of the best techniques," he said. ...
    5-1-2013
  • Advances in RNAi Tools and Technologies
    ... overcome barriers like circulating nucleases and endosome ... which genes are required for tumor growth in vivo. Dr. ... for viability in leukemic cells, as well as a rescue screen ...
    4-15-2013
  • Advertorial: Swift Biosciences
    ... when the sample material is limiting or where the target is present at very low concentration, such as with circulating tumor cells (CTCs), serum, plasma and needle biopsies. ...
    4-1-2013
  • Democratizing Flow Cytometry
    ... With its power to analyze hundreds of thousands of cells in minutes, flow cytometry ... The systems are now used in stem cell research, organelle analysis, circulating tumor cell ...
    3-15-2013
  • Molecular Characterization of CTCs
    Microfluidic System Designed to Deliver Optimized Sample for Downstream Analysis Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed from primary and metastatic tumors and disseminate into the ...
    3-15-2013
  • Use of Digital PCR Ramping Up
    ... detection of cancer mutations in cell-free circulating DNA and the characterization of heterogeneity of tumor biopsies. ... in fully appreciating the biological complexity of our cells. ...
    2-15-2013
  • Exploiting miRNA's Potential for Diagnostics and Drugs
    ... also been interested in circulating miRNAs, and his lab has ... of the miRNAs had the same profile outside and inside cells. ... and correlate it with tumor progression; if the tumor ...
    2-15-2013
  • Next-Generation Sequencing in the Clinic
    ... A lot of these circulating cells are in the process of apoptosis, so they are actually releasing DNA from the tumor cells into the circulation. The idea of monitoring is to ...
    2-13-2013
  • Unlocking Biomarkers' Full Potential
    ... Billings, "is to sample circulating tumor cells or circulating DNA in blood or plasma samples as a noninvasive measure of patient status. A decline in tumor biomarkers during ...
    2-1-2013
  • Wandering Tumor Cells May Seed Metastasis in Breast Cancer
    Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are epithelial cells usually found in cancer patients' blood, albeit in very small numbers. This week, scientists reported that these cells undergo a ...
    1-31-2013
  • Lung Cancer Blood Test Could Be Epic Development
    The contract will fund the further development of an assay to identify and characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in lung cancer patients. The results of this contract are ...
    1-24-2013
  • NCI Grants MabVax $150K for Neuroblastoma Vaccine
    for 2013. Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in children. ... The antibodies then seek out and eliminate residual circulating cancer cells and micrometastases ...
    12-18-2012
  • Childhood Cancer-Linked Mutations May Point Toward New Targets
    transition, keeping the neural cells in the uncontrolled stage of growth ... each cancer patient to detect their tumor fingerprint in circulating blood DNA. This would permit ...
    12-3-2012
  • Boosting Gene Expression Profiling
    ... Lakdawalla. His group envisions that this technology can maximize the use of circulating tumor cells for early diagnosis of cancer, as well as to monitor the response of a patient ...
    11-15-2012
  • Microfluidics Advances in New Directions
    ... and their application in work with circulating tumor cell (CTC) identification. Dr. ... cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), which is found on tumor cells but not on blood cells. ...
    11-15-2012
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    Journal Articles

  • Shear Stress Responses of Adult Blood Outgrowth Endothelial Cells...
    Katherine A. Ahmann, Sandra L. Johnson, Robert P. Hebbel, Robert T. Tranquillo
    Tissue Engineering, Part A
    (HBOECs) are expanded from circulating endothelial progenitor cells in peripheral blood and thus could ... molecule-1 when exposed to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a and shear ...
  • Oncofetal Fibronectin mRNA Is Highly Abundant in the Blood of...
    Michael Wehmeier, Thorsten Petrich, Korbinian Brand, Ralf Lichtinghagen, Eric Hesse
    Thyroid
    Background: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) cells express oncofetal fibronectin (onfFN) mRNA, which may be useful to detect circulating tumor cells. The objective of this study ...
  • Gene Therapy with the Angiogenesis Inhibitor Endostatin in an...
    Tao Ning, Xi Yan, Ze-Jun Lu, Guo-Ping Wang, Ning-Gang Zhang, Jin-Liang Yang, Sha-Sha Jiang, Yang Wu, Li Yang, Yong-Song Guan, Feng Luo
    Human Gene Therapy and Part B: Methods
    of tumor growth and prolongation of survival time of tumor-bearing mice. ... inhibition was also supported by measuring the number of circulating endothelial cells (CECs). ...
  • Antigen Binding of Human IgG Fabs Mediate ERK-Associated Proliferation...
    Yue-Jin Wen, Anne Mancino, Anastas Pashov, Tracy Whitehead, Joseph Stanley, Thomas Kieber-Emmons
    DNA and Cell Biology
    Cells DNA and Cell Biology Serum-circulating antibody can be linked to poor outcomes in some cancer patients. To investigate the role of human antibodies in regulating tumor ...

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