Knight Cancer signal achievements of 2022
People at the Knight Cancer Institute accomplished a lot in 2022. Through innovative, collaborative research and education, the institute delivers cancer prevention, detection, and care — one...
Tag: tumor heterogeneity
‘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...