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Frederick National Laboratory Develops New Tools for HIV Research
Posted 6/9/2019FREDERICK, Md. -- Scientists at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Vaccine Research Center, and a team of collaborators have filled a gap in HIV research by developing 38 new simian/human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) for prevention and treatment studies. The viruses are available to the…
Frederick National Laboratory Partners with Illumina for Clinical Validation of Liquid Biopsies
Posted 5/29/2019FREDERICK, Md. – Tissue biopsies are currently the norm for detecting and obtaining information about cancer. But this type of biopsy can be invasive, and not every patient can have one performed due to the location of their tumor or other health factors.
In recent years, scientists have begun to explore measuring cancer mutations in the blood with liquid biopsies.…
American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting To Feature a Number of Frederick National Laboratory Studies
Posted 5/29/2019CHICAGO – Frederick National Laboratory researchers will present their work across a range of cancer research topics including genomics, precision medicine, and molecular characterization at the annual meeting of the world’s leading clinical oncology organization.
The 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago is expected to bring together more than 32,000 oncology professionals…
American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting To Feature a Number of Frederick National Laboratory Studies
Posted 5/29/2019CHICAGO – Frederick National Laboratory researchers will present their work across a range of cancer research topics including genomics, precision medicine, and molecular characterization at the annual meeting of the world’s leading clinical oncology organization.
The 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago is expected to bring together more than 32,000 oncology professionals…
Annual Event Connects NCI and FNL Technologies with Potential Partners
Posted 5/23/2019FREDERICK, Md. -- Next month, the annual Technology Showcase will return to the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. The event attracts research innovators and business professionals who wish to learn about advanced technologies being developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Frederick National Laboratory (FNL).
More than 300 NCI technologies are…
New Technical Service Helps Identify Infusion Reaction Risk
Posted 5/7/2019UPDATE: This service is no longer being offered as part of the Technical Service Program, but it is still available through a contractor Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (cCRADA). Learn more about the cCRADA program.
FREDERICK, Md. -- A new technical service offered by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research will help researchers screen their…
Cancer Biology Conference to Show the Power of Imaging Science in Cancer Research
Posted 5/6/2019FREDERICK, Md. -- Some of the world’s top experts in imaging and cancer biology will present the latest research in this growing field at the Leidos Biomedical Research and Hood College Imaging Science and Cancer Biology Symposium, June 21–23. Cancer researchers are invited to attend the conference, to be held on the Hood campus in Frederick, Md.
New imaging technologies…
Cancer Researchers Can Store and Share Data Via Free Public-Access Repository Built and Run by FNL
Posted 4/7/2019
FREDERICK, Md. -- For Kedar Narayan, a little-known research tool is helping him meet a critical need in his work at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Narayan is a senior scientist and group lead at the Center for Molecular Microscopy. He investigates urgent problems in cancer biology by using emerging technologies to obtain high-resolution images…
Top HIV/AIDS Researcher Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
Posted 3/18/2019
FREDERICK, Md. -- As a deadly mystery disease with an unknown etiology caused worldwide panic in the early 1980s and quickly became an epidemic, Dr. Jeffrey Lifson was right in the middle of it.
He was a recent medical school graduate and cellular immunology fellow at Stanford Medical School where he saw early cases of what would become known as AIDS.
After…
A Race Against the Unfolding Epidemic
AIDS and Cancer Virus ProgramPosted 3/18/2019
In the immunology lab at Stanford Hospital there was a sense of urgency to discover the culprit of the strange disease that caused rare cancers and infections, initially diagnosed among gay men. It was 1983, and the first signs of what would become the AIDS threat were outlined in a series of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and publications in…
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