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Best AI Software 2023

The demand for artificial intelligence software (AI) has increased significantly in recent years, and organizations of all sizes are adopting artificial intelligence to stay competitive. The top AI software and services detailed in this article use artificial intelligence techniques such as generative AI, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision,…

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NovoCure: Misunderstood Lung Cancer Data Creates Buy Opportunity (NVCR)

nuttapong punna/iStock via Getty Images NovoCure Limited (NASDAQ:NVCR) is a good speculative biotech play to look into. That’s because I believe there is an enormous buy opportunity, which was created on the back of a selloff. I believe this selloff occurred as a result of misunderstood phase 3 lung cancer…

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TransCode Therapeutics (RNAZ) Reports Positive Preclinical Results with TTX-MC138

Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. TransCode Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNAZ) today announced acceptance for publication by Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences of a preclinical study using TransCode’s lead therapeutic candidate, TTX-MC138, in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The findings of…

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Hansa announces first patient dosed with imlifidase in a global pivotal phase 3 Trial in anti-glomerular basement membrane disease

Sweden – Hansa Biopharma (‘Hansa‘), a pioneer in enzyme technology for rare immunological conditions, today announced the first patient has been dosed with imlifidase in the GOOD-IDES-02 trial, a global pivotal phase 3 trial in anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease. Soren Tulstrup, President and CEO, Hansa Biopharma said, ‘This is…

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Hansa announces first patient dosed with imlifidase in a global pivotal phase 3 trial in anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease

LUND, Sweden, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Hansa Biopharma (“Hansa”), a pioneer in enzyme technology for rare immunological conditions, today announced the first patient has been dosed with imlifidase in the GOOD-IDES-02 trial, a global pivotal phase 3 trial in anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease. Søren Tulstrup, President and CEO,…

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FDA approval for Rznomics’ glioblastoma treatment trial

Rznomics Inc., a South Korea based biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of RNA-based gene therapeutics, has received phase 1/2a IND approval from the U.S. FDA for its glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treatment. RZ-001 initially obtained IND approval for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but Rznomics also found pre-clinical efficacy in GBM models…

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Comparing gene expression with copy number variation in TCGA

Hello, I want to compare (with a PCA) gene expression against copy number variation at gene level in a TCGA project.When I retrieve the gene expression every value is mapped by sample and gene. But for the copy number variation, I get only chromosomal locations.To do the PCA, I want…

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Copy number alteration features in pan-cancer homologous recombination deficiency prediction and biology

Data collection for HRD prediction model training and validation For the development of the HRD prediction model, 1854 samples (WGS data) from the pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes9 (PCAWG) and 560 breast cancer samples (SNP array data)16 are collected. To obtain a high-confidence training dataset of HRD, samples with BRCA1/2…

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Single cell RNA sequencing reveals heterogenous immune landscape of tumor infiltrated immune cell population against glioblastoma

Research Alert Newswise — Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive glioma. Recently, immunotherapy using immune-checkpoint blockage (ICB) has provided therapeutic efficacy to various tumors. Despite an attractive ICB therapy, there have not been beneficial outcomes about GBM patients due to the characteristic of immunosuppressive environment. Thus, it is essential to…

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project = “TCGA-GBM”, data.category = “Transcriptome Profiling”, data.type = “Gene Expression Quantification”,

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illuminaHumanv2.db returning NA for all Illumina probe ID to gene symbol conversion

illuminaHumanv2.db returning NA for all Illumina probe ID to gene symbol conversion 0 I have downloaded a miRNA expression dataset from NCBI GEO (GSE25631) to study differential gene expression and perform other analyses. As mentioned in GEO, this profiling was performed on GPL8179 Illumina Human v2 MicroRNA expression beadchip. Accordingly,…

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normalization – DESeq2 throwing error while normalizing raw microarray expression data due to presence of negative values

This question was also asked on Biostars I am trying to download and analyze a miRNA expression dataset from NCBI GEO (GSE25631). I specifically want non-normalized data to perform normalization and my own set of other analyses later on. Accordingly, I downloaded the Series Matrix File (to match the Sample…

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Researchers discover pathway critical for lymphoma development

Activation of the polyamine-hypusine circuit is a hallmark of human cancer and of MYC-driven lymphoma. A, Copy number alterations (CNA) of EIF5A and EIFA2 (left), and of DHPS and DOHH (right) across different cancer types. Abbreviations for the indicated TCGA datasets are: prostate = PRAD; Liver Hepatocellular = LIHC; Diffuse…

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DESeq2 throwing error while normalizing raw microarray expression data due to presence of negative values

I am trying to download and analyze a miRNA expression dataset from NCBI GEO (GSE25631). I specifically want non-normalized data to perform normalization and my own set of other analyses later on. Accordingly, I downloaded the Series Matrix File (to match the Sample IDs with their phenotype) and the non-normalized…

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A multi-omics integrative analysis based on CRISPR screens re-defines the pluripotency regulatory network in ESCs

Genome-scale CRISPR screen to identify regulators that maintain mESC pluripotency To establish a function-based PGRN, we first performed a CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome-wide screen to detect genes essential for self-renewal. mESCs were cultured under Leukaemia inhibitory factors (LIF)/serum condition (L/S), which was commonly used in similar tasks and confer a naïve…

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Pan-cancer analysis reveals IGFL2 as a potential target for cancer prognosis and immunotherapy

Expression of IGFL2 in cancer According to the TIMER2.0 database results, the difference in IGFL2 expression between cancer and normal tissues was significant in most cancers, including BLCA, BRCA, CHOL, COAD, ESCA, GBM, HNSC, KIRC, KIRP, LIHC, LUAD, LUSC, SKCM, HNSC, STAD THCA, and UCEC, while IGFL2 expression was higher…

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PUREE: accurate pan-cancer tumor purity estimation from gene expression data

Genomics-based consensus tumor purity estimates For TCGA samples, genomic-based consensus tumor purities were computed as a mean of predictions from ABSOLUTE17, AbsCNSeq18, ASCAT15, and PurBayes16 following the approach reported in Ghoshdastider et al. 41. AbsCNSeq and PurBayes estimates are based on mutation variant allele frequency data, and ASCAT and ABSOLUTE…

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A pan-cancer analysis of DDR1 in prognostic signature and tumor immunity, drug resistance

Differential expression of DDR1 between tumor and normal tissue samples To better understand DDR1 expression levels in various cancer types, we first performed a pan-cancer analysis of 33 cancers in the TCGA database. Excluding cancers without corresponding normal samples, significant differences in DDR1 expression were found between tumor and normal…

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G9a promotes immune suppression by targeting the Fbxw7/Notch pathway in glioma stem cells

Aim: Immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is limited because of a strongly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Remodeling the immune TME is an effective strategy to eliminate GBM immunotherapy resistance. Glioma stem cells (GSCs) are inherently resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy and involved in immune evasion mechanism. This study aimed to…

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CANbridge Pharmaceuticals sees 67% five-year survival rate

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that its therapy for glioblastoma has shown a 67% survival rate, three years after the clinical trials ended. Four out of nine of the patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) who were part of the clinical study were reported to be alive three years…

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Denovo Biopharma Creates Innovative Gene Registry Program to Support the First Precision Medicine for Treatment Resistant Depression

Newswise — SAN DIEGO, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Denovo Biopharma LLC (“Denovo”), a pioneer in applying precision medicine to the development of innovative therapies, set up a gene registry web portal and invites people who suffer from treatment-resistant depression (TRD) to visit www.iMatchDepression.com to help identify whether they or someone they know may…

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Isogenic Kidney Glomerulus Chip Engineered from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Presented here is a protocol to engineer a personalized organ-on-a-chip system that recapitulates the structure and function of the kidney glomerular filtration barrier by integrating genetically matched epithelial and vascular endothelial cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells. This bioengineered system can advance kidney precision medicine and related applications….

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Cross-platform normalization enables machine learning model training on microarray and RNA-seq data simultaneously

We aimed to assess the extent to which it was possible to effectively normalize and combine microarray and RNA-seq data with existing methods for use as a training set for machine learning applications. We assessed performance on holdout sets composed entirely of microarray data and entirely of RNA-seq data. To…

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Relationship between pan-cancer CLEC2B expression& melanoma

Introduction Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer, with a rising yearly incidence.1,2 Despite the rapid development of checkpoint immunotherapy and targeted therapies, the main melanoma treatment methods include surgical resection and chemotherapy.3,4 Recent immunosuppressive agents increase the one-year survival rate of melanoma patients to more than 50%. However,…

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Translating transcriptomic findings from cancer model systems to humans through joint dimension reduction

AJIVE integration captures biologically joint-acting and cohort-specific variation AJIVE is an extension of JIVE that employs the use of thresholded Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to create low-dimension approximations of input data matrices (Fig. 1). Then, through utilizing Principal Angle Analysis, identifies low-dimension subspace bases that either share variation structure (Joint) or…

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H2O Automated Machine Learning Framework Introduction and Construction Notes

H2O is an in-memory platform for distributed, scalable machine learning. H2O uses familiar interfaces such as R, Python, Scala, Java, JSON and Flow notebook/web interfaces, and works seamlessly with big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark. H2O provides implementations of many popular algorithms such as Generalized Linear Models…

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Plasmatic circRNA Predicting the Occurrence of Human Glioblastoma

Introduction Gliomas are defined as human malignant tumors derived from glial cells. Gliomas account for almost 80% of all malignant brain tumors.1 To date, gliomas have beendivided into four subgroups from I to IV according to the pathologic grading system.2 The prognosis was associated with the subgroup. For the gliomas, lower…

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Cancer Vaccine Created via CRISPR Prevents and Stops Brain Tumors

Nluepke/Pixabay Innovative technologies such as the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 enable pioneering scientists to develop novel treatments for diseases such as cancer. A new study published in Science Translational Medicine funded by the National Institutes of Health unveils an innovative cancer vaccine developed with CRISPR-Cas9 that both terminates and prevents tumors…

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A New Take on Preclinical Drug Trials for GBM Treatment

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive form of primary brain cancer affecting adults. It is a devastating disease with an extremely poor prognosis, with a median survival of 14 to 16 months after treatment.1 The current standard of care, surgical resection followed by concurrent administration of radiation and temozolomide…

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miceforest vs scikit-learn – compare differences and reviews?

What are some alternatives? When comparing miceforest and scikit-learn you can also consider the following projects: Keras – Deep Learning for humans Prophet – Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth. Surprise – A Python scikit for building…

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Targeted inhibition of ubiquitin signaling reverses metabolic reprogramming and suppresses glioblastoma growth

Cell culture Human glioblastoma cells (U87MG and U87MG-Luc) and human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, Va.). Cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco™ Fetal Bovine Serum South America, Thermo Scientific Fisher-US), 2 mM l-glutamine, 50 U/ml…

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New glioma drug may represent a paradigm for designing therapeutics exploiting specific DNA repair

A new class of glioma drugs exploits tumors that lack the DNA repair enzyme MGMT; the drugs lead to the generation of cytotoxic DNA and selectively kill tumor cells without the risk of resistance, researchers report. The new approach may lead to new glioma treatments and may represent a new…

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Roles of circRNAs | CMAR

Introduction Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer, with an increasing global incidence, and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality.1 Although hepatitis B and C virus infections, cirrhosis, alcohol intake, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the main risk factors contributing to HCC.1,2 Approximately…

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Role of CD68 in tumor immunity and prognosis prediction in pan-cancer

Expression of CD68 in pan-cancer First, to fully clarify the expression of CD68 in pan-cancer, we matched the GTEx normal samples with TCGA tumor samples (Fig. 1A). We found that the levels of CD68 were significantly elevated (P < 0.01) in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC),…

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Frontiers | COMMD2 Upregulation Mediated by an ncRNA Axis Correlates With an Unfavorable Prognosis and Tumor Immune Infiltration in Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Introduction Liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC) is the most common type of primary cancer in the liver and third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide (1). Although substantial improvements have been made in LIHC therapy, particularly in molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy (2, 3), the 5-year survival rate of LIHC is…

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Bioconductor – branchpointer

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.branchpointer     Prediction of intronic splicing branchpoints Bioconductor version: Release (3.14) Predicts branchpoint probability for sites in intronic branchpoint windows. Queries can be supplied as intronic regions; or to evaluate the effects of mutations, SNPs. Author: Beth Signal Maintainer: Beth Signal <b.signal at garvan.org.au> Citation (from within R,…

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H2O is an in-memory platform for distributed, scalable machine learning

H2O is an in-memory platform for distributed, scalable machine learning. H2O uses familiar interfaces like R, Python, Scala, Java, JSON and the Flow notebook/web interface, and works seamlessly with big data technologies like Hadoop and Spark. H2O provides implementations of many popular algorithms such as Generalized Linear Models (GLM), Gradient…

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Index of /runs/gdc/report_2018_02_16

Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory   –   TCGA-ACC.2018_02_16.diced_metadata.tsv 2018-02-16 01:06 250K   TCGA-ACC.2018_02_16.high_res.heatmap.png 2018-02-16 01:08 73K   TCGA-ACC.2018_02_16.low_res.heatmap.png 2018-02-16 01:08 37K   TCGA-ACC.2018_02_16.sample_counts.tsv 2018-02-16 01:06 142   TCGA-BLCA.2018_02_16.diced_metadata.tsv 2018-02-16 01:06 1.2M   TCGA-BLCA.2018_02_16.high_res.heatmap.png 2018-02-16 01:08 90K   TCGA-BLCA.2018_02_16.low_res.heatmap.png 2018-02-16 01:08 53K   TCGA-BLCA.2018_02_16.sample_counts.tsv 2018-02-16 01:06 201  …

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Bioconductor – MLInterfaces

    This package is for version 3.3 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see MLInterfaces. Uniform interfaces to R machine learning procedures for data in Bioconductor containers Bioconductor version: 3.3 This package provides uniform interfaces to machine learning code for data in R and Bioconductor containers. Author:…

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The Choice Of Most Champions

In this article, we’ll learn about XGBoost, its background, its widely accepted usage in competitions such as Kaggle’s and help you build an intuitive understanding of it by diving into the foundation of this algorithm. XGBoost XGBoost is an algorithm that is highly flexible, portable, and efficient which is based on a decision tree for ensemble learning…

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Bioconductor – MethPed

    This package is for version 3.4 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see MethPed. A DNA methylation classifier tool for the identification of pediatric brain tumor subtypes Bioconductor version: 3.4 Classification of pediatric tumors into biologically defined subtypes is challenging and multifaceted approaches are needed. For…

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TCGA Agilent level 2 to level 3

TCGA Agilent level 2 to level 3 0 Hi there, I’m struggling to find documentation about how TCGA aggregated probe level data to gene level data (level 2 to level 3) for the Agilent microarray gene expression datasets (for GBM). I’m asking because the values seem to have been log…

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