BACKGROUND
Precision (Personalized) medicine has the potential to revolutionize patient health care especially for many cancers where the fundamental disease etiology remains either elusive or has no… (More)
PNT100 is a 24-base, chemically unmodified DNA oligonucleotide sequence that is complementary to a region upstream of the BCL-2 gene. Exposure of tumor cells to PNT100 results in suppression of… (More)
There is resurgence within drug and biomarker development communities for the use of primary tumorgraft models as improved predictors of patient tumor response to novel therapeutic strategies.… (More)
Although our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of common types of cancer has improved considerably, the development of effective strategies for cancer diagnosis and treatment have lagged… (More)
Variable clinical responses, tumor heterogeneity, and drug resistance reduce long-term survival outcomes for metastatic melanoma patients. To guide and accelerate drug development, we characterized… (More)
Preclinical compounds tested in animal models often show limited efficacy when transitioned into human clinical trials. As a result, many patients are stratified into treatment regimens that have… (More)
Bifunctional small hairpin RNAs (bi-shRNAs) are functional miRNA/siRNA composites that are optimized for posttranscriptional gene silencing through concurrent mRNA cleavage-dependent and -independent… (More)
Tumor cell lines are relied on extensively for cancer investigations, yet cultured cells in an in vitro environment differ considerably in behavior compared with those of the same cancer cells that… (More)
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common type of solid bone cancer, with latent metastasis being a typical mode of disease progression and a major contributor to poor prognosis. For this to occur, cells… (More)