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Cancer Research

‘Pan-KRAS’ drug aiming at KRAS-related cancers lacking targeted therapies now being tested in humans

Patients with intractable cancers driven by mutations of the KRAS oncogene have few available therapies. Yet, an...

Laboratory develops clinical assay for recurrent thyroid cancer

The CLIA Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL) developed and...

Advancing global cervical cancer research: HPV Serology Laboratory completes eight-year mission

After nearly eight years of meticulous collaborative effort, the HPV Serology Laboratory at the Frederick National Laboratory...

Frederick National Laboratory teams help evaluate plant virus’ preclinical safety as cancer treatment

Researchers at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer...

Pioneering biophysicist, computational biologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Ruth Nussinov , Ph.D., who discovered that dynamic ensembles are the true workhorses of cellular function and who has...

ASCO oral presentation, posters to explore use of liquid biopsy in rare cancers

Biswajit Das, Ph.D., MoCha associate director, will present this study in an oral abstract session on Friday, May 30 at 4:45...

Valuable medical and biological images languish for want of support

Experts are working globally on standards for sharing medical and biological image data, much of which cannot be reused...
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Image of a distal mouse femur with mineralization scored via random forest classification using HALO image analysis software. The Molecular Histopathology Laboratory investigates treatments for cancer and infectious diseases within the Laboratory Animal Sciences Program by providing support for tissue-based research in understanding disease mechanisms, integrating research and diagnostic activities, and characterizing multiple mouse models of cancer.
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RAS Initiative

Discovering the Secrets of a Prevalent Oncogene
The RAS Initiative mobilizes the cancer research community to develop ways to treat cancers driven by the mutant RAS gene in an open model of collaboration among government, academic, and industry researchers.
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People per year in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancers caused by KRAS mutations.
What is this? Surface representation of the structure of an oncogenic mutant of KRAS in complex with RAS-binding domains of RAF1 Kinase. The GMPPNP bound to oncogenic KRAS mutant is shown in ball-and-stick representation.
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Cultivating innovation through technology development and partnerships
We bring the Frederick National Laboratory’s distinct capabilities to the broader research community to help solve urgent problems in biomedical research.
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