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The BAFfling Complexity of the BAF Complex in Cancer

How do cells dynamically regulate access to their tightly packed DNA to control gene expression and ...
Curtis Desilets Jul 24, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Activating Invasion and Metastasis

Cancer cells invade local tissue and spread to distant sites via two distinct, but similar processes...
Chris Sumner Jul 17, 2019

Enzymatic vs Sonication: Optimizing Chromatin Prep for Successful ChIP

Part one of this series described the importance of including proper controls in your ChIP protocols...
Carolyn P Jun 26, 2019

Tissue Clearing Imaging Methods for Whole, Intact Brain Imaging

For generations of neuroscientists, using immunohistochemistry to study the brain in its anatomical ...
Richard Cho, PhD Jun 5, 2019

Pathways to Cancer: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

The process of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), whereby differentiated epithelial cells tran...
Antony Wood, PhD May 29, 2019

Need cell type and function? Use flow cytometry

What is flow cytometry and how is it used? Flow cytometry enables you to save time and analyze many ...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD May 8, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Evading Growth Suppressors

Cancer cells resist inhibitory signals that might otherwise stop their growth. The major pathways in...
Chris Sumner May 1, 2019

General Tips for Successful Cell Culture

Culturing cells in the lab? Following these tips will add to your success and help you avoid wasted ...

Hallmarks of Cancer: Enabling Replicative Immortality

Cancer cells can revert to a pre-differentiated, stem-cell-like phenotype, allowing uninhibited cell...
Chris Sumner Apr 17, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Sustaining Proliferative Signaling

Cancer cells stimulate their own growth, which means they become self-sufficient in growth signals a...
Chris Sumner Apr 3, 2019

Hypoxia & Cancer: The role of HIF-1α in Oxygen Sensing, Metabolism, and Tumorigenesis

Molecular oxygen (O2) is an essential element for metazoan life. Among its many roles, O2 functions ...
Jianxin Xie, PhD Mar 27, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Inducing Angiogenesis Energetics

Cancer cells stimulate the growth of blood vessels to supply nutrients to tumors. Angiogenesis is th...
Chris Sumner Mar 20, 2019

Necroptosis & Pyroptosis Add to Our Understanding of Apoptotic Cell Death

Over the last 50 years, laboratories have been able to demonstrate through experimentation the proce...
Gary Kasof, PhD Mar 13, 2019

STR Profiling: What's Growing in Your Incubator?

Cell lines are a crucial part of life science research and development. But did you know an estimate...

Hallmarks of Cancer: Deregulating Cellular Energetics

Cancer cells need a lot of energy to grow fast—to do so, they show abnormal metabolic pathways. Most...
Chris Sumner Feb 27, 2019

Studying Post-translationally Modified Sites and Disease Variants with PhosphoSitePlus®

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are employed in the cell to alter protein function, and typi...

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