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New tissue-chip research aims to speed drug development for two genetic forms of epilepsy

An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop an "organ-on-chip" model for two genetic forms of epilepsy. These disorders affect both brain and heart and improved modeling could lead to new drug treatments.

22 Sep 2017

Research sheds light on how to improve production of key diabetes cells

Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of them left in your body. This is because the immune system attacks the beta cells.

21 Sep 2017

Scientists use genome editing to understand role of a gene key to human embryonic development

Researchers have used a genome-editing technique to elucidate the role of a gene that is key to human embryonic development.

21 Sep 2017

UTMB scientists gain new insights into factors that lead to preterm birth

A group of scientists led by Ramkumar Menon at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has gained new insights into what factors lead to preterm birth. This study is currently available in The American Journal of Pathology.

21 Sep 2017

UCSB scientists receive $9 million NSF funding to develop optical brain-imaging techniques

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including UC Santa Barbara scientists John Bowers, Michael Goard and Luke Theogarajan, has been awarded $9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and widely share state-of-the-art optical brain-imaging techniques.

21 Sep 2017

UTSW receives $34 million CPRIT award for cancer research and faculty recruitment

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded UT Southwestern researchers more than $34 million for cancer research and faculty recruitment, including support for programs in pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.

19 Sep 2017

Salk study shows how fast-growing tumors evade immune system

The immune system automatically destroys dysfunctional cells such as cancer cells, but cancerous tumors often survive nonetheless. A new study by Salk scientists shows one method by which fast-growing tumors evade anti-tumor immunity.

18 Sep 2017

Research shows how bacteria inactivate common drug used to treat cancers

To the reasons that chemotherapy sometimes does not work, we can now add one more: bacteria. In a study published today in Science, researchers describe findings that certain bacteria can be found inside human pancreatic tumors.

18 Sep 2017

A skin patch to get rid of those love handles

Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the University of North Carolina have managed to devise a microneedle skin patch that could locally treat both obesity and diabetes. As of now it has been used to treat mice in the laboratory and shown promising results.

17 Sep 2017

Optical Microscopy Resolution Revolution

I will talk about the simple but fundamental idea that allowed breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy as well as about MINFLUX nanoscopy, the latest development in the field that for the first time provides true molecular resolution with visible light and standard objective lenses.

From Pittcon 12 Sep 2017

Old lab technique helps researchers better understand circular DNA

A 50-year-old lab technique is helping researchers better understand circular DNA, a lesser-known and poorly understood cousin of the linear version commonly associated with life's genetic blueprint.

12 Sep 2017

Portuguese researchers reveal mechanism of nuclei movement within muscle cells

A group of researchers at Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa has revealed the mechanism by which cellular nuclei reach their position within muscle cells.

11 Sep 2017

Penn researcher wins National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award

M. Celeste Simon, PhD, who studies cancer cell metabolism, tumor immunology, and the influence of oxygen availability and deprivation on tumor growth, has been given a National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award.

8 Sep 2017

Seeing the full picture, real-time analysis of live-cells

Every cell is a miniature factory taking in raw material (extracellular signals) and processing it to produce something (a biological response). But unlike a factory that can be easily tweaked to run at steady-state and look the same from day to day, cells are dynamic.

From Sartorius 7 Sep 2017

New discovery suggests choanos ‘eavesdrop’ on bacteria to regulate their life history

To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for one-celled marine organisms notable for being the closest living relative of all animals.

1 Sep 2017

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press releases new book on Targeting Cancer

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press announced the release of Targeting Cancer, available on its website in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats.

31 Aug 2017

Scientists identify novel role for retrotransposons in shaping embryonic chromatin landscape

Retrotransposons are repetitive elements that form almost half of the mammalian genome. Even though they are so common, they have previously been considered to be fairly insignificant.

30 Aug 2017

Study tests therapeutic effect of conventional and new cancer drug combinations

Cancer is one of the major causes of death worldwide affecting 8.2 million of people per year, and in the US, the number of new cases will achieve 1.6 million in 2017. The global impact of this disease costs a trillion of dollars, which makes critical the development of new drugs and treatment against it.

28 Aug 2017

Offshore rush for herpes vaccine roils debate over U.S. safety rules

Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.

28 Aug 2017

Biomedical engineering researchers aim to attack two banes of cardiovascular disease

Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease - heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of resistant high blood pressure - with $4.8 million in National Institutes of Health grants that begin this fall.

26 Aug 2017