KromaTiD’s Dark Lab Files: Happy National Cytotechnology Day!
Microscopic study of the cells in our bodies is what Cytotechnology is all about. Taking our cells, putting them on a slide and reading them [...]
KromaTiD’s Dark Lab Files: The Great Race to Cure Cancer – CAR-T Segment
As technologies evolve, therapies for cancer have advanced and more and more researchers are finding out how the science of our bodies make us ill [...]
KromaTiD’s Dark Lab Files : Cytogenetics a Little History Lesson
Cytogenetics has been a key part of biology since 1842, a Swiss botanist named Karl Nägeli had first discovered chromosomes in pollen. Many decades later [...]
KromaTiD’s Dark Lab Files: FDA Draft Guidelines for Human Gene Therapy Products Incorporating Human Genome Editing
Last month March 2022, the FDA released Draft guidelines for Human Gene Therapy Products Incorporating Human Genome Editing. This guideline is a Draft and as [...]
DNA Probes and their Importance in Oncology
DNA probes are simply oligonucleotides (short sequences of DNA) approximately 100-1000bp long, that are used to detect the presence of [...]
Structural Variations in Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases
First let’s define what a Structural Variation is. A structural variation (SV) is generally defined as a region of [...]
The Guardian of the Genome the TP53 Gene
Mutations in the TP53 Gene are where the most frequent alterations in human cancers show. These alterations cause Li-Fraumeni syndrome, creating [...]