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When I first learn cancer biology, my teacher told me that cancer is usually caused by the loss of tumor suppressor , which is like you loss your brake. After it losses the suppressor, it tends...
06 June 2018 8,164 2 View
We're looking to study the spheroid aggregation in a microfluidic device. The available literature either uses a lining of Matrigel (GFR type), or a cell lining of mesothelial peritoneal cells. We...
05 May 2018 2,646 0 View
Considering game theory and the role of physical forces could lead to better treatments for cancer. “Too often, biologists see physicists as human calculators.”
04 April 2018 4,439 3 View
Although thousands of scientists and specialists around the world are working on different types of cancer to find certain treatment for them, There is no definite way to cure that and we lose our...
03 March 2018 1,037 19 View
Hello I know that cancer is not hereditary but why when someone in a family for example gets breast cancer, the other females in her family most go check up and do mammography? If cancer is not...
03 March 2018 6,003 4 View
02 March 2018 3,987 14 View
cell death gets a remarkable attention in the last few years, particularly in relationship with cancer biology. What are the reasons for such conflicting definitions of cell death?.
02 February 2018 1,779 0 View
Recently, there has been concern over the matter that more and more PhD holders are graduating every year even-though, the job field is saturated. So, could anyone expert or having a PhD share...
02 February 2018 2,062 4 View
In one person, of one epithelium, which is all exposed to that carcinogen equally, in the same duration, frequency and intensity?
08 January 2018 4,871 9 View
For example if an oncogene is within a cell that lacks components of the downstream signaling pathway, then it will not function as an oncogene anymore. Could this be the reason that oncogenes...
02 January 2018 9,153 12 View
01 January 2018 7,561 12 View
as i am interested in cancer biology it would like to know about it in detail
01 January 2018 1,448 4 View
i am interested in knowing about cancer biology
01 January 2018 2,869 0 View
suggest a relevent mouse model for HepG2 cell line, i am studying gene expression in tumorgensis. our desire gene show engough results in invitro studies, now i want to know about gene function in...
23 November 2017 5,977 5 View
Cancer biology, biochemistry of cancer, metabolism in cancer cells and tumorgenesis.
11 November 2017 3,306 0 View
A study by Peeters et al. (2017) suggests that sugar traps cancer in a 'vicious cycle' which make it more aggressive and harder to treat (1). On the question-and-answer site Quora, Ray Schilling,...
10 October 2017 3,247 14 View
In cancer biology there is a specific cancer "driver genes" concept. Are there any databases or other resources related to that subject? Kind of: (cancer) - (list of drivers) table. In general,...
08 August 2017 8,766 6 View
Hello everybody,I have a question to chromatograms. Is it possible to determine whether a tumor mutation is heterozygous or homozygous when DNA from tumor cells is isolated and amplified by using...
08 August 2017 5,462 3 View
I want to know about the journals which don't charge for publication of an article and also the one which takes less time in processing.
04 April 2017 6,967 4 View
Dear all, I am giving this drug which is 16.5mM in DMSO and I want to make 0.1mM and 0.33mM of it to add it to the cancer cell line. I know DMSO might have an effect on the cells so I'm planning...
03 March 2017 5,576 4 View
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I am looking to assess the metabolic control of breast epithelial cancer cells in cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and the subsequent effect of this on doxorubicin chemoresistance using an in...
23 January 2017 2,319 1 View
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I would like to mesure circulating osteoprotegerin levels in breast cancer patients. But I reviewed literature and some people use serum and other are using plasma. So what are the...
12 December 2016 3,948 1 View