Oncology

Dynamic Microenvironments: Finding the Right Cancer Therapy

July 16, 2017

With so many promising cancer therapies emerging from research labs, a key challenge for biomedical researchers is to develop tools that accurately predict treatment efficacy against a patient’s specific cancer, thereby avoiding [more...]

Microfluidics in the Clinical Lab

December 28, 2016

From Admin: In this article, the author uses non-tech analogies from everyday life to explain some key microfluidics principles that govern the behaviors of flow in micro scale domain. The advantages of using microfluidics system have been [more...]

Fluidigm Introduces High-Parameter Maxpar Mass Cytometry Panels for Immuno-Oncology Research

November 27, 2016

Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced the introduction of a modular set of high-parameter Maxpar® mass cytometry panels for immuno-oncology research. Designed for use with Helios™ and CyTOF® systems, the Immuno-Oncology Maxpar [more...]

Illumina Forms New Company to Enable Early Cancer Detection via Blood-Based Screening

January 10, 2016

Jan. 10, 2016– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced GRAIL, a new company formed to enable cancer screening from a simple blood test. Powered by Illumina sequencing technology, GRAIL will develop a pan-cancer screening test [more...]

Holographic Imaging For Rapidly sorting Stem Cells, Cancer Cells

October 11, 2015

MIT scientists created these 3-D images of living cells based on measurements of their index of refraction. Different colors represent different indices of refraction, which correlate with the cells’ density, allowing for cells to be [more...]

Google Wants to Cure Diseases

August 21, 2015

Google’s smart contract lens When Google Co-Founder Larry Page dropped his now-famous blog post revealing that Google was reorganizing itself as Alphabet, one of the most striking things was what he chose to highlight as the kind [more...]

Scaffold-integrated Microchips Retrieve Cancer Cells

August 7, 2015

An integrated microfluidic chip design with an embedded 3-D hydrogel scaffold provides a transfer-rable microenvironment for the recovery and longitudinal study of captured circulating tumor cells. (Image Credit: TECHNOLOGY) A team of [more...]

Tiny Biochemical Sensor Provides Real-time Cancer Monitoring

August 5, 2015

Illustration of the tiny biochemical sensor that can be implanted in cancerous tissue during an initial biopsy (Image Credit: Michael Cima et al, MIT) In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, [more...]

Programming Gut Bacteria to Detect and Destroy Disease

July 12, 2015

The illustration depicts Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (white) living on mammalian cells in the gut (large pink cells coated in microvilli) and being activated by exogenously added chemical signals (small green dots) to express specific [more...]

3-D Organoids Grown from Patient Tumors Could Personalize Drug Screening

July 4, 2015

Cancer in 3-D (Image Credit: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Three-dimensional cultures (or “organoids”) derived from the tumors of cancer patients closely replicate key properties of the original tumors, reveals a study [more...]

Johnson & Johnson to Deploy Emulate' s Organs-on-Chips Platform in Drug Development Process

June 21, 2015

New Thrombosis-on-Chip (Image credit: EmulateBio) Emulate, whose president Geraldine Hamilton will speak at the first Organ-on-a-Chip World Congress 8-9 July 2015, said the alliance was intended to improve Janssen’s drug development [more...]

What Makes Cancer Cells Spread? New Microfluidic Device Offers Clues

May 27, 2015

Individual cancer cells were isolated with a new device. The cell on the left is less likely to metastasize. Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor and travel to distant parts of the body? A team of oncologists and engineers from [more...]