DREAM Challenge
International Team Launches Community Competition to Unravel How Cancer Changes a Cell’s RNA
From Newswise
Nanotechnology
“SMART” nanoparticle called pearls a promising gem to target, treat tumours with greater precision
From University Health Network
Stand Up to Cancer
MasterCard Starts a “Priceless® Conversation” to support Stand Up To Cancer
From Stockhouse
OICR INVESTIGATORS IN THE NEWS
Paul Boutros
Collaborative Cancer Cloud
Can Big Data Help Cure Cancer?
From information Week
Intel’s Cancer Cloud: Complementing NCI Collaboration
From Bio•ItWorld
Prostate cancer
Urine Protein Panels Identify Prostate Cancer and Differentiate between Tumors
From Lab Medica
Geoff Fong
Benefits of e-cigarettes
Public health benefits of e-cigarette use tend to outweigh the harms
From EurekAlert!
Impact of e-cigarette policies
University of Waterloo awarded $8.8 million CDN to study impact of e-cigarette policies
From EurekAlert!
OICR PROGRAM LEADER IN THE NEWS
John Dick
Stem cells
Stem cell scientists discover genetic switch to increase supply of stem cells from cord blood for future clinical use
From University Health Network
OICR PROJECTS IN THE NEWS
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Big Data
The great data revolution in biomedicine (translation)
From Zive
Breast cancer
A whole-genome sequence and transcriptome perspective on HER2-positive breast cancers
From Nature Communications
Standardizing terms for clinical pharmacogenetic test results
Expert panel publishes standardized PGx term
From GenomeWeb (free registration required)
International Cancer Genome Consortium
Big Data
A ‘Big Data’ Approach to Developing Cancer Drugs
From Drug Discovery and Development
Esophageal cancer
Tackling hard-to-treat cancers – what, how and why?
From Cancer Research UK
Personalized medicine
Nouvelle avancée en médecine de précision contre le cancer
From Libération
Tool for molecular profiling
TOMA Biosciences partners with Real Time Genomics to develop clinical analysis tools for molecular cancer tumor profiling
From TimesUnion
Pharmacogenomic investigation of alterations identified in human cancers
This Week in Cell
From GenomeWeb (free registration required)