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Three scientists from the region presented innovative imaging techniques and discussed how they are leveraging them to advance cancer research and ultimately improve human health at the Biotech Connector seminar on Wednesday, May 17, the second in this year’s series sponsored by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and the…
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Each year, the Frederick National Laboratory offers its scientists an opportunity to compete for funding to conduct the research they view as critical to advance biomedical research but is outside the scope of their daily research activities. This year, three proposals earned funding through the program, known as the Laboratory Directed…
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Is your billion-dollar oncology artificial intelligence (AI) cutting-edge technology, or is it artificial ignorance? That’s the question Frederick National Laboratory’s Maggie Scully, Ph.D., and a panel of industry experts seek to tackle at the BIO International Convention in Boston on June 7. Karim Budhwani, Ph.D., DLA, CEO-scientist of…
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Dogs and humans have been companions throughout recorded history. Our four-legged friends appear in early written tales, such as the Mesopotamian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, and are mentioned by name in ancient Egyptian inscriptions. In prehistoric gravesites worldwide, dogs are found laid to rest alongside humans. They’ve been with us through…
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By training computer models to assess pathology images of rhabdomyosarcoma tumors, researchers hope to help doctors better tailor treatments to patients. Researchers at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and the National Cancer Institute developed an artificial intelligence-based system that can anticipate the severity of…
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The Biopharmaceutical Development Program (BDP) at Frederick National Laboratory is engineering cells into cancer-killers that are being used to treat children and young adults participating in early-phase pediatric cancer trials. The treatment is called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. CAR T cells are a type of white blood cell…
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Common drugs for controlling pain and inflammation – such as aspirin and ibuprofen – improved overall lung cancer survival by a statistically significant margin in a long-term study of patient medical records. This finding called for more definitive randomized clinical trials. Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was…
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Five new projects led by Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL) scientists have earned Laboratory Directed Exploratory Research (LDER) funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The LDER program, which was modeled after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, provides FNL scientists…
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Some of the world’s top scientific leaders in the field will highlight the current progress of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in cancer research and clinical care at a scientific symposium hosted by Hood College in partnership with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, September 2022. Cancer researchers are…
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On any given day, microscopist Susan Lea, D.Phil., and her team at NCI at Frederick collect more data than can fit on any standard hard drive, creating a challenge for data storage and analysis. Their average data collection is 5 terabytes, a quantity roughly 20 times the storage capacity of a 256-gigabyte laptop or the equivalent of storing…