Not exact matches
The Erie County Health
Department, along with the Poison Control
Center, strongly encourages that the hotline's phone number be preprogrammed into
cell phones and telephones for expedient dialing in the case of an emergency.
«More women are postponing childbearing, but with age, the cumulus
cells that surround and nurture the eggs begin dying; we've found that this is caused by lack of oxygen,» said senior author Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., director of the Yale Fertility
Center and professor in the
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences.
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the
department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science
Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the
cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Departments of
Cell Biology and Medicine, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
«We have identified a code of «molecular switches» that control a very aggressive subpopulation of brain cancer
cells, so - called glioblastoma stem
cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH
Department of Pathology and
Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the
Cell article.
Jaya G. Yodh, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor and Medical Education Facilitator, Carle Illinois College of Medicine; Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, NSF
Center for the Physics of Living
Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Department of
Cell Biology and Genetics, and
Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC (University Medical
Center), Post Office Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Shobhana Natarajan, who has worked in labs in India and was most recently a postdoc at the
Department of
Cell Biology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical
Center, in Dallas notes that in general, resources are more limited in India compared with the United States.
Additional coauthors included Dr. Axel Concepcion,
Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine; Dr. Charles Smith,
Department of Anatomy &
Cell Biology and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Facility for Electron Microscopy Research; Drs. Sonal Srikanth and Yousang Gwack,
Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. Michael Paine,
Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California; and Dr. Michael Hubbard,
Departments of Paediatrics and Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne.
But Jerry Phillips, a biochemist who performed
cell phone research at U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs's Pettis VA Medical
Center in Loma Linda, Calif., in the 1990s, believes that conflicting results are to be expected given the nature of the radiation being scrutinized.
Aifantis, the chair of the
Department of Pathology at NYU Langone and a member of its Perlmutter Cancer
Center, and an early career scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, says experiments in his laboratory had shown that leukemia - initiating
cells concentrate in the bone marrow near CXCL12 - producing blood vessels.
In fact, depending on the tumor
cell, they grow at dramatically different speeds, according to a study led by Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the
Department of Genetics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston.
Other researchers who contributed to the work include Xi C. He, Ryohichi Sugimura, John M. Perry, Fang Tao, Meng Zhao, Matthew K. Christenson, Rebecca Sanchez, Jaclyn Y. Yu, Jeffrey S. Haug, Ariel Paulson and Hua Li at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Joanne L. Thorvaldsen and Marisa S. Bartolomei in the
Department of
Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Lai Peng and Xiao - bo Zhong in the
Department of Pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical
Center in Kansas City as well as Thomas L. Clemens in the
Center for Musculoskeletal Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
A therapeutic screening
center, headed by Lee Rubin at the Harvard
Department of Stem
Cell and Regenerative Biology, is dedicated to using induced pluripotent stem
cells to find new drugs for genetic diseases.
«By identifying the signals that instruct mouse progenitor
cells to become
cells that make tubes and later insulin - producing beta
cells, we can transfer this knowledge to human stem
cells to more robustly make beta
cells, says Professor and Head of
Department Henrik Semb from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
Center for Stem
Cell Biology at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
↵ ‡ Present address:
Department of Molecular and
Cell Biology,
Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
Department of Molecular and
Cell Biology,
Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 — 3200, USA.
The team from the cluster of excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools and the Bernstein
Center at the University of Freiburg and the UNIC
department of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Gif - sur - Yvette created a computer model of networks of nerve
cells and analyzed its properties for signal propagation.
«We challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (
cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer
Center and assistant professor in the
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.
Geschwind, a professor in the Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer
Center, and others at Johns Hopkins have been studying the experimental drug as a cancer treatment for over a decade because of its ability to block a key metabolic pathway of cancer
cells.
Professor Takao Hamakubo's group at the
Department of Quantitative Biology and Medicine, Research
Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), have shown that PTX3 forms strong bonds with histones and partially unfolds, leading to a disordered coaggregation of histone and PTX3 and protecting human endothelial
cells from damage.
Sandra Schmid, chair of the
Department of
Cell Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, recently suggested in a Science Careers article, that improving institutional decision - making overall, would especially help women.
The team, which included members of the Health Science
Center departments of medicine and biochemistry, investigators from the UT Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas and a group of collaborators from Austria, found that the gene that codes the enzyme D2 - hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase (D2HGDH) is mutated in a subset of cancers called diffuse large B -
cell lymphomas.
Sia collaborated with researchers from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health; the Institute of HIV Disease Prevention and Control, Rwanda Biomedical
Center;
Department of Pathology and
Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical
Center; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Laboratory Reference and Research Branch, Atlanta; and OPKO Diagnostics.
With the three - year grant, Vanapalli and his collaborators Boyd Butler in the
Department of Biological Sciences and Everardo Cobos at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center, will build microfluidic devices that mimic blood flow to study how tumor
cells move inside capillaries, how they squeeze through tight spaces, whether they are subject to fragmentation and how they become stuck.
The technology to grow NK
cells from umbilical cord blood was developed by Nina Shah, M.D., assistant professor and Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D., professor in the
department of Stem
Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center.
«As a powerful model system for studying adult stem
cells, Drosophila female GSCs have revealed many novel regulatory strategies which have been later confirmed to be generally true,» adds Su Wang, a co-first author of the paper and also a graduate student in
Department of Anatomy and
Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical
Center.
«Someday we might treat GERD with medications that target the cytokines or inflammatory
cells that really cause the damage to the esophagus,» said co-senior author Dr. Rhonda Souza, Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and staff physician with the
Department of Gastroenterology at the Dallas VA Medical
Center.
«Reactive oxygen species are an essential part of the biochemistry of life,» says senior author Gyorgy Hajnoczky, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the MitoCare
Center of the
Department of Pathology, Anatomy and
Cell Biology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.
«We have revealed novel components and connections in the regulatory network underlying how these T
cells mount an immune response,» said study co-leader Kai Tan, PhD, of the
Center for Childhood Cancer Research and the
Departments of Pediatrics and Biomedical and Health Informatics at CHOP.
Of the three
cell wall components, lignin is the most troublesome for the biofuel industry because it limits the extraction of cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the
Department of Plant Biology and Genome
Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the study.
Collaboration between researchers at the U.S.
Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss
Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) shows the high potential of silicon - based multijunction solar
cells.
«Oxidative stress can cause damage to the building blocks of a
cell, resulting in excessive
cell proliferation, in the case of cancer or
cell death, in the case of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's,» said Mark Hannink, a professor in the
Department of Biochemistry and an investigator at the Bond Life Sciences
Center at MU.
Because stem
cells have the ability to develop into many different
cell types in the body, researchers at USF's
Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair,
Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem
cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.
«In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain
cells were made, nearly one - half of them were no longer there,» said Shors, professor in the
Department of Psychology and
Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers.
«They play an important role in the excitation of nerve
cell axons and signal transfer between various
cells,» says Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck, who conducts research in experimental epileptology at the
Department of Epileptology, at the Life & Brain
center and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (
center and the German
Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (
Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).
Other investigators contributing to the new study include Chaoran Yin, Ting Zhang, Yonggang Zhang, Raj Putatunda, Xiao Xiao, Fang Li, Shen Dai, and Xuebin Qin in the
Department of Neuroscience at the
Center for Neurovirology and the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS
Center, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Weidong Xiao in the
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Huaqing Zhao in the
Department of Clinical Science, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Xiying Qu in the
Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh; and Xianming Mo in the Laboratory of Stem
Cell Biology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Current therapeutic options for such patients are limited, particularly when there are many metastases,» says Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, director of the
Center for Stem
Cell Therapeutics and Imaging (CSTI) in the BWH
Department of Neurosurgery, who led the study.
The Ludwig
Center at the University of Chicago --- under the direction of Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor and Chair of the
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, and Geoffrey Greene, PhD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor in the Ben May Cancer Research Institute at the University of Chicago — will focus on metastasis, the process by which cancer
cells migrate from a primary tumor to multiple distant sites.
Michael Jacox, assistant director of Texas A&M's Commercial Space
Center for Engineering and a nuclear engineer, says he felt compelled to study the Mills
cell in relative secrecy when he was a research scientist for the
Department of Energy.
Division of Biomedical Engineering,
Department of Medicine,
Center for Regenerative Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem
Cell Institute, Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Adult stem
cell research does take place at Georgetown, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, in addition to groundbreaking stem - like cell research in the Center for Cell Reprogramm
cell research does take place at Georgetown, in the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, in addition to groundbreaking stem - like
cell research in the Center for Cell Reprogramm
cell research in the
Center for
Cell Reprogramm
Cell Reprogramming.
Affiliation Medical Genetics
Center,
Department of
Cell Biology and Genetics,
Center of Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus Medical
Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the lab of June Liu, Ph.D. in the School of Medicine,
Department of
Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences
Center in New Orleans to study synaptic and neural circuitplasticity in brain slices and its role in learning and memory.
«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, and Associate Director,
Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the
Cell paper.
The US
Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with Oorja Protonics, a developer and manufacturer of direct methanol fuel
cell technology (earlier post) on a two - year project to deploy and demonstrate methanol fuel
cells for power pallet jacks in four commercial wholesale distribution
centers.
As a Harvard graduate receiving her Ph.D. in
Cell & Developmental Biology and also formerly working at MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Dr. Charlotte Vines, who is currently an Assistant Professor for the Border Biomedical Research
Center and the
Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), has a lot of experience in the field of cancer biology.
Uppsala University Biomedical
Center Department of
Cell and Molecular Biology Husargatan 3, Box 596 751 24 Uppsala Sweden
15:00 Paolo Pinton, Section of General Pathology,
Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Telethon
Center for
Cell Imaging and Interdisciplinary
Center for the Study of Inflammation, University of Ferrara, Italy: «Mitochondrial Ca2 + signals: message of life and death.»
Described in the February edition of Nature Biotechnology, the method was developed by a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins» Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Hopkins Institute for
Cell Engineering, and the F.M. Kirby Research
Center for Functional Brain Imaging at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.