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Effort to accelerate understanding of the molecular basis of cancer using genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing.
… The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) was a joint effort of the National … to systematically explore the entire spectrum of genomic changes involved in human cancer.  The project then molecularly characterized …  (2014)  Rare kidney tumor provides insights on role of metabolic changes in cancer r  (2014)  TCGA researchers …
Talking Glossary
La hibridación fluorescente in situ (FISH) es una técnica de laboratorio que se usa para detectar y localizar una secuencia de ADN especÃfica en un cromosoma.
… Hibridación fluorescente in situ (FISH) … La hibridación fluorescente in situ (FISH) es una técnica de laboratorio que se usa para … La hibridación fluorescente in situ (FISH) es una técnica de laboratorio que se usa para … La hibridación fluorescente in situ (FISH) es una técnica de laboratorio que se usa para …
News Release
Learn what happens when two genetic neighborhoods merge in brain tumor cells after a gene controlled by a gene-control switch turned on a cancer-growth gene.
… Genome Advance of the Month highlights a landmark study in Nature that describes what happens when two genetic neighborhoods merge in brain tumor cells. Researchers found that one gene came … switch from a different genetic neighborhood, turning on a cancer-growth gene. The research team was led by Bradley E. …
Staff
Dr. Bell is a senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute's Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch.
… Institutes of Health. She received her B.Sc. (Honors) in Zoology and Genetics and her Ph.D. in Biology and Biochemistry from The Queen's University of … She conducted her postdoctoral training at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, before joining Harvard Medical …
Jobs at NHGRI
Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Daphne W. Bell, within the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, at NIH.
… Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Daphne W. Bell, within the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch of the … to research into the molecular underpinnings of uterine cancer. The overarching goal of the laboratory is to identify …
Jobs at NHGRI
Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Daphne W. Bell, within the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, at NIH.
… Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Daphne W. Bell, within the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch of the … to research into the molecular underpinnings of uterine cancer. The overarching goal of the laboratory is to identify …
Genetic Disorders
Phenylketonuria is an inherited disorder of metabolism that causes an increase in the blood of a chemical known as phenylalanine.
… inherited disorder of metabolism that causes an increase in the blood of a chemical known as phenylalanine. … inherited disorder of metabolism that causes an increase in the blood of a chemical known as phenylalanine. … used by the body to make proteins. Phenylalanine is found in all food proteins and in some artificial sweeteners. …
Clinical Research
This study evaluates patients with inherited metabolic disorders and related medical complications.
… the genetic causes of the various types of these inherited metabolic disorders and the medical complications associated … and low muscle tone, kidney problems, poor vision, and metabolic instability causing them to become seriously ill, … any type of MMA, but special diets, vitamin therapies and in some patients, organ transplantation, are used for …
Educational Resources
A carcinogen is an agent with the capacity to cause cancer in humans.
… A carcinogen is an agent with the capacity to cause cancer in humans. … Cancer, Tumor, Genetic Mutation, Chemical … is a substance, organism or agent capable of causing cancer. Carcinogens may occur naturally in the environment (such as ultraviolet rays in sunlight and …
Staff
Elaine Ostrander is chief of NHGRI's Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch.
… is Chief and Distinguished Senior Investigator of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch at the … Cancer Research Center and University of Washington in 1993, rising to the rank of Member in the Human Biology and Clinical Research Divisions, and … 5 , domestication 6  , and performance 7 , 8  . In doing so they have demonstrated the power of breed …