POSTS TAGGED AS gene expression

A Nasal Swab to Detect Lung Cancer

Nasal Swab
For persistent smokers, their “airway field of injury” extends all the way from their bronchial epithelium to the cells [MORE]

Predictive Genomics: Stanford’s PRECOG for Cancer Outcomes

Data Base
“Prediction of Cancer Outcomes from Genomic Profiles” is what Stanford’s Cancer Institute calls its database that integrates expression profiling [MORE]

Transforming Skin Cells to Brain Tissue for Autism Research

Human Brain Organoid
Yale University neuroscientists have grown brain “organoids” from induced pluripotent stem cells, converted from skin cells of autism [MORE]

A Protein Called “TOPLESS”

TOPLESS Protein
Why would a biomedical research institute, focusing on cancer, conduct research on plant proteins? The answer explains why the [MORE]

Making New Cells for Transplantation

Pioneer Factor DNA
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have identified a key process in the gene [MORE]

“PAM50” Test Kit for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Personalized cancer treatment depends upon subclassifications of patients’ diseases, such as breast cancer’s sub groups: luminal A, luminal B, [MORE]

Schizophrenia Diagnosed with Nasal Neurons

What does a nematode have to do with schizophrenia in humans?  Nothing directly, but in 1993 the first micro [MORE]

A New Mystery Written in RNA

N6-methyladenosine
For some time, biochemists have known about DNA and protein modifications—i.e. chemical changes that alter the function of genes [MORE]