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NCI-Funded Tool Helps Characterize Noncoding Elements that Impact Cancer Genes

Want to learn more about the noncoding regions of DNA that impact cancer and its resistance to treatment? A new NCI-funded computational tool called “MethNet” may help.

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Analysis Tool Aids in Identifying Genes that Hijack Enhancers

Looking for a new tool to help you better understand the genes that drive cancer? See how this NCI-funded tool called “HAPI” can help you spot structural changes linked to hijacked enhancers—bits of DNA that move from one location to another to boost overexpression of cancer-causing genes.

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Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan Talks Informatics, Data Science, and Epidemiology in NCI Podcast

She speaks to how these areas are interconnected, shares her personal career journey, and uses her experience to advise you on how to be a successful cancer researcher.

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NIH Quantum Computing: New Frontiers in Biomedical Research Innovation Lab

Apply for this NIH-supported opportunity to help advance the use of quantum computing to tackle real-world biomedical research problems, including cancer research.

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NCI ITCR Investigators Develop New Tool for Analyzing Copy Number Variations Across the Genome

Discover how you can use it to access and visualize genomic data, making it easier for you to analyze and interpret complex omics data.

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ARPA-H Biomedical Data Fabric (BDF) Toolbox Program Announces Awardees

Construction of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s (ARPA-H’s) BDF Toolbox program is well underway. ARPA-H has awarded contracts to nearly 20 teams—representing academia, nonprofits, and commercial organizations—who are tackling a broad range of projects, many of which are directly related to cancer research.

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NCI Funding Helps Bring New AI-Aided Device for Glioblastoma to Market

Thanks to funding from NCI’s Small Business Innovation Research program, a new tool recently received FDA clearance. See how this cyber device could help you with artificial intelligence (AI)-guided glioblastoma segmentation.

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NCI-Funded Researchers Develop Tool for Deciphering Telomeres

Telomeres have confounded researchers for decades, making it difficult to understand their full impact on diseases like cancer. See how this new digital telomere measurement tool is helping researchers gain insight into these elusive structures.

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CCDI Workshop Addresses the Needs of Its Rare Cancer Initiative

Learn about the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative’s national strategy for studying children, adolescents, and young adults with very rare cancers. The Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Rare Cancer Initiative supplies researchers (like you) the data requirements for collecting data from study participants.

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GammaGateR Helps Decipher Imaging Data

Looking for an easier way to sort and quantify key cellular information from immunofluorescent images? NCI-funded researchers have a new semi-automated tool, called “GammaGateR,” that may help.

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