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Conceptual image of hands wearing surgical gloves holding a test tube filled with a liquid biopsy sample.
Enhanced Sequencing Results from Liquid Biopsies
Using a library preparation kit optimized for cell free DNA (cfDNA) provides high quality data for early cancer detection.
Enhanced Sequencing Results from Liquid Biopsies
Enhanced Sequencing Results from Liquid Biopsies

Using a library preparation kit optimized for cell free DNA (cfDNA) provides high quality data for early cancer detection.

Using a library preparation kit optimized for cell free DNA (cfDNA) provides high quality data for early cancer detection.

Cancer

Image of a cancer cell skipping across the water. 
Skipping Toward Resistance: The Gradual Adaptation of Cancer Cells 
Laura Tran, PhD | Sep 6, 2024 | 4 min read
Instead of an on-off toggle switch, cancer cells adapt through a series of distinct states of increasing drug resistance.
This image shows hexagon shaped cells (mouse airway stem cells) that are outlined in magenta. Within each cell there are tiny dots that represent centrioles, which are colored cyan. 
Introducing a New Version of the Cell Cycle
Maggie Chen | Sep 6, 2024 | 4 min read
Scientists have identified a new variant of the cell cycle that could provide insight into how diseases like cancer occur. 
A 3D render of multiple RNA strands floating around each other.
Improving RNA Sequencing with FFPE Samples
The Scientist Staff | Sep 2, 2024 | 2 min read
Samples are commonly stored in a way that degrades RNA. Scientists are devising new ways to overcome this obstacle for RNA sequencing. 
Improving T Cell Tumor-Specificity Using Single Cell Co-culture
Improving T Cell Tumor-Specificity Using Single Cell Co-culture
The Scientist Staff | Aug 28, 2024 | 1 min read
In this webinar, Edward Han, Jospeh Zenga, and Tyce Kearl will discuss how optofluidic technologies unlock key immuno-oncology insights for translational applications.
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FDA approves Illumina cancer biomarker test with two companion diagnostics to rapidly match patients to targeted therapies
Illumina | Aug 27, 2024 | 3 min read
This single test interrogates over 500 genes to profile a patient’s solid tumor, helping to increase the likelihood of identifying an immuno-oncology biomarker or clinically actionable biomarkers that enable targeted therapy options or clinical trial enrollment.
Pseudo-colored scanning electron microscope image of the algae microrobot with the algae in green and the drug-filled nanoparticles in orange.
Green Warriors: Algae Microrobots Set to Combat Metastasis
Laura Tran, PhD | Aug 26, 2024 | 4 min read
Green algae can be outfitted with nanoparticles, transforming them into efficient drug-delivering machines that target lung tumors.
Cartoon image of floating transparent spheres with smaller blue spheres inside them.
Study Reveals a Cell-Eat-Cell World
Aparna Nathan, PhD | Aug 13, 2024 | 3 min read
From normal vertebrate development to tumor cell cannibalism, cell-in-cell events occur in many different contexts across the tree of life
An illustration of pink cancer cells attached to a blue surface.
Delving Deeper: Advancing Cancer Research with Molecular Analysis
The Scientist Creative Services Team in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific | Aug 13, 2024 | 1 min read
The emergence of innovative analytical methods empowers researchers to comprehensively characterize tumor samples.
Artistic rendering of a tumor cell as a misshapen purple blob, surrounded by spiky pink blobs representing NK cells.
Maintaining NK Cells’ Killer Instincts
Aparna Nathan, PhD | Aug 9, 2024 | 4 min read
A protein in natural killer cells keeps them from turning into more docile counterparts.
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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and Illumina Accelerate Oncology Research with Launch of TruSight Oncology 500 DNA/RNA Application
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences | Aug 6, 2024 | 2 min read
Assay Automation Makes Cutting-Edge Research More Accessible to Labs
An illustration of circulating tumor cells surrounded by red blood cells.
Monitoring Multiple Myeloma Progression through Sequencing
Charlene Lancaster, PhD | Aug 2, 2024 | 4 min read
Irene Ghobrial sequences circulating tumor cells in blood samples to genomically profile patients with multiple myeloma.
A 3D rendering of an antibody drug conjugate with attached cytotoxic payloads.
Supporting Antibody-Drug Conjugate Development
The Scientist Staff | Aug 1, 2024 | 2 min read
Industry expertise helps scientists navigate and streamline antibody-drug conjugate research and development.
A blue T cell attacks a blue cancer cell
Characterizing Cancer via the Immune Response
The Scientist | Jul 30, 2024 | 1 min read
Researchers explore the immune system to further understand cancer and illuminate therapy development.
A melanoma on human skin.
Minicells Shut Down Cancer’s Spread 
RJ Mackenzie | Jul 29, 2024 | 4 min read
A nutrient-based nanomedicine stopped runaway tumor growth in mice by firing up a latent metabolic pathway.
A fluorescent imaginal disc from <em >Drosophila&nbsp;</em>larvae on a black background.
Cancers with an Exceptional Cause
Kamal Nahas, PhD | Jul 18, 2024 | 4 min read
Epigenetic control of gene expression can switch on genes that push cell division into overdrive independently of genetic faults.
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Vitamin D Acts via the Microbiome to Boost Cancer Immunity
Nicholas Miliaras, PhD | Jul 12, 2024 | 4 min read
An essential nutrient and the gut flora, thought to have separate but important roles in the immune response, join forces.
Exploring the Tumor Microenvironment with Spatial Biology
Exploring the Tumor Microenvironment with Spatial Biology
The Scientist Staff | Jul 12, 2024 | 1 min read
In this webinar, Pinaki Bose and Fei Chen will discuss how scientists use spatial biology techniques to study the tumor microenvironment.
T-cell targeting cancer cells
Cell-Based Assays for Immuno-Oncology
Lonza | Jul 9, 2024 | 1 min read
Cellular immunogenicity and immunotoxicity assays help scientists design, validate, and translate therapeutic research into treatments that weaponize the immune response against cancer.
Discover the benefits of a cfDNA library preparation workflow aimed to improve cfDNA sequencing sensitivity.
Improving cfDNA Sequencing Sensitivity by Optimizing Library Preparation
Twist Bioscience | Jul 3, 2024 | 1 min read
Explore a cfDNA library preparation workflow that provides high yield and conversion to improve sensitivity and detection of low variant allele frequencies (VAF).
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