The human body is home to a diverse ecosystem of trillions of bacteria. In fact, your digestive tract alone — including your small and large intestine — houses about 99% of your entire microbiome. In fact, the human body has …
Circular sequencing (CirSeq) is a genetic sequencing technique which was developed at UCSF by the Andino lab, and has become the preeminent sequencing technique due to its high accuracy. CirSeq provides accurate detection of virus genome mutations by identifying and …
Breast Cancer can be subdivided into a number of subtypes. Six major subtypes, previously identified and documented, are considered particularly useful for prognosis and treatment strategy. These subtypes respond differently to chemotherapy and hormone treatments. Currently, doctors only test for …
This project is based on the results reported in Bradford et al., 2016, “Whole transcriptome profiling of patient-derived xenograft models as a tool to identify both tumors and stromal specific biomarkers”. The tumor stroma, or the microenvironment around a tumor, …