Where tumor cells boldly go: Weill Cornell cancer biologists shed light on the metastatic niche
NEW YORK (May 1, 2009) -- Traditionally, cancer biologists have embraced a simple and direct model of the disease process: The tumor -- the "seed" -- was seen as bearing total responsibility for the spread of cancer to distant tissues -- the "soil" in which the seed embedded itself, grew, and repr...Cell biologists identify new tumor suppressor for lung cancer
Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have identified a new tumor suppressor that may help scientists develop more targeted drug therapies to combat lung cancer. The study, led by Jorge Moscat, PhD, appears in the January 2009 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biol...Boston College biologists build a better mouse model for cancer research
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (4/9/08) Researchers at Boston College have developed the first laboratory mouse model that mimics cancers spread through the human body. Using their novel cell line, the team discovered one of the bodys primary defensive cells plays a role in cancers attack. The development ...MIT Biologists Solve Vitamin Puzzle
Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard researchers have discovered// the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12--the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms. B12, the most chemically comple...Prestigious Gairdner Awards for medical research in 2006 Goes To Two Yale biologists
Two Yale Biologists and three other scientists will receive The Gairdner International Awards, 2006, among the most coveted awards in science, for their exemplary// research on RNAs, cell motility and hormones. The awards will be presented on October 26, in Toronto. John Dirks, president of t...Carnegie Mellon develops innovative method to detect genetic causes of complex diseases
... PITTSBURGHComputational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an analytical technique to detect the multiple genetic variations that contribute to complex disease synd...New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once
...er. Their study appears in the Aug. 21 edition of the journal Lab on a Chip and is currently available online. A team of UCLA chemists, biologists and engineers collaborated on the technology, which is based on microfluidics the utilization of miniaturized devices to automatically handle and cha...Cell division find prompts overhaul of immune response modeling
...of divisions cells went through before they died, existing computer models had been developed assuming all cells were mechanically identical. However, biologists have long been aware that cells never behave identically. This variation is usually dismissed as 'noise' or irrelevant biological variation. "About...Blood vessel bends and branches put the brakes on statins
...he endothelial cells to be less responsive to a potentially protective antioxidant effect of statins. "Research teams at Imperial - involving biologists and fluid engineers - are now taking these findings forward to discover how best to restore disease-protection and drug-responsiveness in vulnerable p...White Nose Syndrome: Is Pennsylvania Next?
... Agency biologists will play key role in national effort probing for ...said. "So it will be important for Game Commission biologists to monitor the population and health of their colo...nacula in the fall. He also noted Northeastern bat biologists will meet in June to establish priorities for coll...Remarks by President Bush on Stem Cell Veto and Executive Order
...; Dr. Don Landry, Professor at Department of Medicine -- actually, he's the Chairman of the Department. The reason they're here is these are brilliant biologists who are seeking new ways to develop stem cell lines without violating human life. And these are smart folks, and I cannot thank them enough for coming...CCNY, CSHL biologists find birdsong of isolates reverts to norm over several generations
AUDIO: This recording demonstrates the progression from isolate song to "wild-type " song in two tutoring lineages and also in the isolate colony. ...Penn biologists discover how 'silent' mutations influence protein production
PHILADELPHIA - Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania have revealed a hidden code that determines the expression level of a gene, providing a way to distinguish efficient genes from inefficient ones. The new research, which involved creating hundreds of synthetic green-glowing genes, provid...UIC biologists use DNA to study migration of threatened whale sharks
Whale sharks -- giants of the fish world that strike terror only among tiny creatures like the plankton and krill they eat -- are imperiled by over-fishing of the species in parts of its ocean range. That threat is underscored in a new study from geneticists led by Jennifer Schmidt, University ...Penn biologists demonstrate that size matters... in snail shells
PHILADELPHIA - A team of biologists at the University of Pennsylvania has completed a research study begun in 1915 and determined that a snail making its home in the northwest Atlantic Ocean around Mount Desert Island, Me., has experienced a dramatic increase in the size of its shell during less t...Two innovative University of Texas at Austin biologists become HHMI Early Career Scientists
AUSTIN, Texas Two University of Texas at Austin biologists join 50 of the nation's best early career science faculty to focus on their boldest and potentially transformative research ideas with support from a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). As Early Career Scien...Plant biologists discover gene that switches on 'essence of male'
Biologists at the University of Leicester have published results of a new study into plant sex and discovered that a particular gene switches on 'the essence of male'. The study takes to a new level understanding of the genes needed for successful plant reproduction and seed production. Pro...Queen's University biologists find new environmental threat in North American lakes
Kingston, ON A new and insidious environmental threat has been detected in North American lakes by researchers from Queen's and York universities. Along with scientists from several Canadian government laboratories, the team has documented biological damage caused by declining levels of calciu...Caltech biologists spy on the secret inner life of a cell
PASADENA, Calif.-- The transportation of antibodies from a mother to her newborn child is vital for the development of that child's nascent immune system. Those antibodies, donated by transfer across the placenta before birth or via breast milk after birth, help shape a baby's response to foreign ...Engineers create 3-D model to help biologists combat blue tongue virus
A large 3D model of the Blue Tongue virus has been created by WMG engineering researchers at the University of Warwick that will help biologists devise new ways to combat the virus and protect millions of livestock from infection. The WMG University of Warwick researchers based their model on...Plant biologists discover unexpected proteins affecting small RNAs
LA JOLLA, CA - Now that high school biology students can recite that genes are made of DNA, which is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), which is then translated into protein, along comes a new class of molecules, sending studentsand many scientistsscrambling for updated textbooks. A study b...New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
...robotics, and defining the compounds' structures largely through trial and error. At the end of this months-long process, a large team of chemists and biologists usually deem only 1% or fewer of the compounds worthy of further testing in living cells. A novel method, demonstrated by Whitehead scientists and ...Bioinformatics Expert Dr. Jiaan Yang Joins Sundia MediTech With Innovative PFSC Technology
...cribe protein complex 3D structure, and achieved PFSC, an outstanding success. For a long time, it has been a great challenge to protein chemists and biologists how to obtain a complete description of protein 3D structure, including the irregular shapes of loops and coils. With his expertise in multiple field...Best of Show Awards Winners Named at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
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...t survive," he said. "So if something persists in the genome, it generally has to either be neutral, or it has to be of some benefit." Evolutionary biologists have historically focused on small changes in the genome such as point mutations or the insertion of viral genes that sometimes lead to the developm...Life sticks: UC San Diego bioengineer's sticky insights published in journal Science
...e that can really help you ask new and interesting questions," said Engler. Interdisciplinary Research Mathematicians, engineers and stem cell biologists have not traditionally worked together, but these kinds of interdisciplinary collaborations have been the key to developing new techniques and new dis...Assembling cells into artificial 3-D microtissues, including a tiny gland
... Berkeley -- As synthetic biologists cram more and more genes into microbes to make genetically engineered organisms produce ever more complex drugs and chemicals, two University of Calif...Anti-cancer gene discovered: Perspective for therapy
... adult human, the cells become more and more specialized ("differentiated", biologists say). Cancer cells are an exception to that rule: they are much less spe...tumor formation. The specific example the VIB scientists used, are the ones biologists call the Atonal genes. These genes are very similar to each other in all sp...Mathematical models reveal how organisms transcend the sum of their genes
... MADISON Molecular and cellular biologists have made tremendous scientific advances by dissecting apart the functions of individual genes, proteins, and pathways. Researchers at the University ...ProteinChip System, Series 4000 from Ciphergen
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