‘Scissor’ opens view to single cells of cancer, other diseases

Cancerous tumors are composed of cells that may look the same but are in fact incredibly diverse. Mutations and changes in gene activity give rise to competing sub-populations of tumor cells with...

From old samples, new breast cancer answers

OHSU scientists have shown how it’s possible to obtain detailed views of breast cancer gene activity from preserved tumor samples more than a decade old. The researchers say their RNA sequencing...