Chronix Biomedical Timeline for Development
of Specific Cancer Risk Assessment Tests

 

Task MONTH
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Laboratory set-up  
Pathway #1 - Cancer Cell Sequences
DNA purification of cancer cells  
Primary amplification of cancer associated sequences  
Cloning and sequencing of primary cancer cell amplicons    
Primary Cancer Amplicon Database  
Secondary Primer design  
Secondary amplification for specific cancer sequences  
Sequencing of specific cancer amplicons    
Compare Specific Cancer Cell Sequences with CNA cancer sequence database  
Tertiary primer optimization  
Pathway #2 - Cancer Patient Derived Circulating Nucleic Acid (CNA)Sequences
DNA purification of CNA from patient sera  
Primary amplification of CNA sequences  
Cloning and sequencing of primary CNA cancer-specific amplicons    
Primary CNA Amplicon Database  
Secondary Primer design  
Secondary amplification for specific CNA cancer sequences  
Sequencing of specific cancer CNA amplicons    
Compare CNA Cancer Sequences with Specific Cancer Cell database  
Tertiary primer optimization