Many antineoplastics are designed to target upregulated genes, but quantifying upregulation in a single patient sample requires an appropriate set of samples for comparison. In cancer, the most ...

Ideally, specific treatment for a cancer patient is decided by a multidisciplinary tumor board, integrating prior clinical experience, published data, and patient-specific factors to develop a ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 8 (August 2009), pp. 502-508 (7 pages) Objectives: Residual confounding can be present in epidemiological studies because information on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ ...

Collections of genetic profiles have continued to grow steadily, but scientists have struggled a bit with finding the most effective way to use them. In a paper published in PNAS this week, a group of ...