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Tumor
Tumor: is an abnormal mass of tissue that may be solid or fluid-filled. A tumor is not the same as cancer. Although, some tumors can develop into cancers. A tumor is a kind of lump or swelling and does not necessarily pose a health threat.
JAN 01, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Biomarkers are critical tools for all stages of cancer research, from drug development through clinical applications. Cancer is fundamentally a disease of unregulated cell growth and circumv...
JAN 01, 2020 | 6:00 AM
The OrganoPlate is a microtiterplate based Organ-on-a-Chip platform for high throughput drug safety and efficacy screening. It contains up to 96 cell culture chambers that allow co-culture o...
DEC 17, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 17, 2019TIME: 8:00am PSTMass cytometry instruments simultaneously measure >50 cellular features, with a typical experiment including millions of cells. Dysregulated...
DEC 05, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 5, 2019TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Characterization of the spatial distribution and abundance of proteins and mRNAs with morphological context within tissues e...
NOV 21, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: November 21, 2019TIME: 8:00am PSTA complex interaction among heterogenous immune and tumor cells within the tumorous tissue not only influences tumor progression, but can also sha...
NOV 14, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring form of cancer in women. While 5-year survival rates for localized disease approach 99%, cases of advanced breast cancer have a much poorer pro...
NOV 13, 2019 | 12:00 PM
DATE: November 13, 2019TIME: 12:00pm PT NK cells play a major role in immune surveillance and in the early immune response to cancer and infections. Beneficial anti-tumor respo...
NOV 12, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: November 12, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTDirect measurement of copy number by droplet-based shallow sequencing of genomic DNA has the potential to provide new insights into tumor heterog...
NOV 07, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: November 7, 2019TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST Studying the pathogenesis of diabetes requires detailed analysis of the pancreatic islet microenvironment and its numerous c...
OCT 29, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: October 29, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTAlthough immune-based therapies targeting the inhibitory receptors (PD-L1, PD1, and CTLA4) are proven to be effective to treat cancer, some pati...
OCT 10, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker that correlates with response to immunotherapeutic agents, such as checkpoint inhibitors. Recent studies indicate that a high mutation l...
OCT 10, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common bone tumor in pediatric and adolescent/young adult patients. Over the past three decades, significant improvements in the survival rates or therapeutic ap...
OCT 10, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Copy-number alterations and chromosomal translocations are widespread in cancer and frequently causing oncogenic mutations that drive tumorigenesis and therapy resistance. Despite their preva...
OCT 09, 2019 | 1:30 PM
The quest to cure cancer through the manipulation the immune system has been at the forefront of science for the past half-decade. The result has been the emergence of a multitude of promisin...
