German Researchers Find Sensitizer for Gemcitabine Using DECIPHER RNAi Libraries

June 10, 2013

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) used Cellecta's shRNA DECIPHER libraries to identify genes that sensitize pancreatic cells to gemcitabine.Pancreatic cancer has only a 6% 5-year survival rate. Gemcitabine is the standard treatment in conjunction with surgery to remove cancerous...
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Tissue Targeting May Offer an Alternative Therapeutic Approach for Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

October 14, 2011

We recently received a phase II of our SBIR grant Exploiting Synthetic Lethality of Hematopoietic Lineage Cells to Develop Novel Targets from the NIH. Rather than trying to identify potential drug targets in oncogenic hematopoietic cells, much of the effort for this project focuses on trying to develop a...
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Screening for Synergistically Lethal Knockdown Combinations in Cancer Cells

August 31, 2011

Therapeutic approaches using multiple drug combinations have become a standard treatment model for many types of cancer. Due to the tremendous genetic complexity and adaptive nature of most human malignancies, the use of multiple drugs acting on different targets increases the efficacy and helps thwart the...
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RNAi Screening with An Inducible Promoter: Is There an Advantage?

May 13, 2011

Inducible expression is often desirable for functional genetic testing to establish clear cause and effect for a specific phenotype. A particular phenotype can be demonstrably linked to expression of a specific cDNA by showing it disappears when transcription is suppressed. Although less direct, similar logic...
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