Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us
June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...
Tag: single-cell analysis
New clues to what turns prostate cancers deadly
Only a fraction of prostate cancers become life threatening, but it’s impossible to predict which ones. In a surprising new study, researchers found that two signaling proteins used by nerve cells...
‘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...
Innovation expands view into workings of single cells
Researchers have devised a way to multiply by more than ten-fold the accessible details of gene activity in individual cells. It’s a big leap in the effort to understand cancer development, brain...
Interrogating cancer, one cell at a time: Q&A with Hisham Mohammed
Hisham Mohammed, Ph.D., helped create a way to peer into individual cells and take multiple measures of gene activity and gene regulation at the same time. He’s leading the first research to apply...