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What is THP-1 Cell?

THP1 is a human monocytic cell line derived from an acute monocytic leukemia patient. It is used to test leukemia cell lines in immunocytochemical analysis of protein-protein interaction, and immunohistochemistry. […]

Codon Adaptation Index

The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is the most widespread technique for analyzing Codon usage bias. As opposed to other measures of codon usage bias, such as the ‘effective number of […]

Codon usage bias

Codon usage bias refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA. A codon is a series of three nucleotides (a triplet) that encodes a […]

First Success With CAR T-Cells in a Solid Tumor

Chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has repeatedly provided dramatic results in patients with hematologic malignancies. Now comes the first success story of CAR T-cell therapy in a solid tumor — […]

Eukaryotic Promoter Database

EPDnew (Eukaryotic Promoter Database) – is a new collection of experimentally validated promoters in human, mouse, D. melanogaster and zebrafish genomes.  Evidence comes from TSS-mapping from high-throughput expreriments such as […]