Asthma, a disease caused by airway inflammation and is caused by excessive response to an allergen, such as grass. The main molecular feature of asthma is the excessive differentiation of CD4 T cells. The goal of this publication was to …
What is RNA-seq? RNA Sequencing, also known as RNA-seq, is a method for processing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. RNA transcription occurs in an organism when genes are expressed, and the goal of RNA-seq is to determine the factors that …
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 …
Circular sequencing (CirSeq) is a genetic sequencing technique which was developed at UCSF by the Andino lab and is published in Nature has become the preeminent sequencing technique due to its high accuracy. CirSeq provides accurate detection of virus genome mutations …
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 …
Pdx project from JaclynW 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 …