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Cancer Tissue Repository Launched
Jef Akst | Apr 11, 2016 | 1 min read
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will store tissue samples from patients with leukemia and lymphoma from which scientists can make patient-derived mouse models.
Toward Blood-based Cancer Detection
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Jul 7, 2015 | 4 min read
Circulating tumor cells, exosomes, and DNA can improve the diagnosis of many cancers. But are liquid biopsies ready for prime time?
The Challenges of Precision
Adam Marcus | Apr 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Researchers face roadblocks to treating an individual patient’s cancer as a unique disease.
My Mighty Mouse
Megan Scudellari | Apr 1, 2015 | 10+ min read
Personal drug regimens based on xenograft mice harboring a single patient’s tumor still need to prove their true utility in medicine.
Engineered Biomarkers Could ID Cancer Cells
Jenny Rood | Feb 23, 2015 | 3 min read
Scientists develop synthetic blood-based biomarkers to amplify tumor signals in a mouse model.
Obesity Complicates Colorectal Cancer
Tracy Vence | Apr 9, 2014 | 2 min read
Study finds that prediagnosis obesity is predictive of poor prognosis, even among patients who have a molecular marker associated with better disease outcome.
Group Aims for Biomarker Standards
Kerry Grens | Jan 14, 2014 | 1 min read
A new alliance between industry, academia, and the government wants to boost the “dismal” success rate of biomarker development.
The Organist
Megan Scudellari | May 1, 2013 | 9 min read
When molecular biology methods failed her, Sangeeta Bhatia turned to engineering and microfabrication to build a liver from scratch.
Get a Whiff of This
Kerry Grens | Sep 1, 2012 | 3 min read
Can electronic noses come close to the real thing?
Opinion: Confounded Cancer Markers
Vincent Detours | Dec 7, 2011 | 3 min read
Prognostic signatures have become popular tools in cancer research, but it turns out signatures made of random genes are prognostic as well.