cancer

Ancestral characterization of 1018 cancer cell lines highlights disparities and reveals gene expression and mutational differences

Although cell lines are an essential resource for studying cancer biology, many are of unknown ancestral origin, and their use may not be optimal for evaluating the biology of all patient populations. An admixture analysis was performed using …

Improving Cancer Detection and Treatment with Liquid Biopsies and ptDNA

Liquid biopsy, or the capacity to noninvasively isolate and analyze plasma tumor DNA (ptDNA) using blood samples, represents an important tool for modern oncology that enables increasingly safe, personalized, and robust cancer diagnosis and …