Sentences with phrase «lab at cancer»

Caetano Reis e Sousa, head of the immunobiology lab at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute, sounds says the work is «exciting» but cautions that it is at an early stage.

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Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

A cure for cancer - it could well be the most invigorating, but frustrating goal for medical research, but the work at a lab in Albany may help to end the scourge of cancer one day.

Rather than pack up and go home, he went for the last option available — a master's degree in cancer research — and picked a cancer lab that also studied viruses, at the University's Institute of Hematology.

Two years later, the clinic's conference room became the new lab, and Wang hired Xin — then a cancer - genetics postdoc at Case Western Medical School — to run clinical diagnostics and basic research.

After graduating in 1993, Mangahas went to work as a lab technician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, managing the laboratory of Virginia Zakian and conducting research using common baker's yeast — the same yeast he uses today to ferment wine.

Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer replacement tissue in the lab to treat digestive system conditions — from infants born with too - short bowels to adults with inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, or fecal incontinence.

One of his professors, Dag Jenssen, persuaded Helleday to join his lab in the Department of Genetics, Microbiology, and Toxicology at Stockholm University to investigate the importance of recombination in somatic cells, tumor cells, and cancer initiation.

They looked at three different sets of lab - grown liposarcoma cells — a cancer of fat and connective tissues.

Within a year, though, Helleday says he wanted do his «own thing» with PARP, so he obtained start - up funding from the medical research charity Yorkshire Cancer Research and applied for an opening at Sheffield to start his own lab while continuing to supervise the Stockholm lab he founded as a graduate student.

Like other postdocs at UNC, I spent long hours in the lab and presented my research at national conferences, including that of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

Doug Mahoney's lab at the University of Calgary recently discovered an immunotherapy that uses existing cancer drugs in a whole new way.

In 2011, chemical and biochemical engineer Jessica Winter learned that she had breast cancer — ironically just 3 months after she had begun breast tumor studies in her lab at Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus.

Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils in gene expression studies on lab - grown human breast cancer cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.

Dr. Gelman's lab is now working with collaborators at the University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of the experimental agent CADD522, an inhibitor of RUNX2 function, in preventing or impeding prostate cancer metastasis.

I am currently lab manager at the laboratory of molecular pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute.

«When someone is thinking about joining my group I am very up front with what my expectations are,» says PI Paul Doetsch, professor and distinguished chair in cancer research, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, adding that one major expectation he has for his lab members is a strong work ethic.

Since beginning a lab dedicated to understanding cancer metastasis at Rockefeller six years ago, Associate Professor Sohail Tavazoie has found that microRNAs — tiny strands of RNA that function as switches to inactivate specific genes — play an important role in controlling genes linked to metastasis.

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

The group looked at an oncogene, AF1q discovered in Tse's lab, which is expressed in hematological cancer cells and is known to be related to multiple myeloma.

Tell, a postdoctoral fellow in Horvath's lab, had a strong interest in cancer and was very skilled at computational bioinformatics.

Armed with his first big discovery, Allison won a full professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became co-chair of the department of molecular and cell biology and director of the cancer research lab.

MLVs so dependably cause cancer in lab - bred mice — especially leukemia and lymphoma — that a small fraternity of scientists at the NCI and elsewhere has fruitfully studied these viruses since the 1960s in an effort to understand how human cancer begins.

During her final two years at the agency, she had directed the Lab of Antiviral Drug Mechanisms, where she studied therapies for AIDS as well as one of its associated cancers, Kaposi's sarcoma.

To understand how cancer cells could have an established tolerance, Santagata and Peter Tsvetkov, a postdoctoral researcher in the Lindquist lab, analyzed the genes that allow cells to survive exposure to proteasome inhibitors at toxic levels.

Other main contributors include Thomas Milner, professor of biomedical engineering in UT Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering and his lab members; Jialing Zhang, research associate at the Eberlin Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centlab members; Jialing Zhang, research associate at the Eberlin Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CentLab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centlab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk.

They tested these drugs one at a time for lethal interaction with 112 different tumor - suppressor gene mutations in human cancer cells growing in the lab.

As a doctoral student in the lab of Drs. Margaret Wheelock and Keith Johnson at the University of Toledo, Dr. Islam focused on identifying a link between cadherins (a family of cell adhesion proteins) and tumorigenesis (start of cancer cell formation).

The lab of co-author Dr. Robert Bast Jr., an expert in ovarian cancer and vice president for translational research at MD Anderson, inserted gel - bound carbon nanotubes into the ovaries of rodents to mimic the accumulations that are expected for nanotubes linked to special antibodies that recognize tumor cells.

In 1979, he and Ciechanover, then a postdoctoral student, did a series of experiments while visiting Rose's lab at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

Dr. Berens also is Director of the Cancer and Cell Biology Division and head of the Glioma Research Lab at TGen.

To this end Dr. Linding is currently leading high - level, strategic, multidisciplinary studies of signaling network dynamics driving cancer metastasis in collaboration with other labs at Harvard, Yale, The Jackson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT, andcancer metastasis in collaboration with other labs at Harvard, Yale, The Jackson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT, andCancer Center, MIT, and BRIC.

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Claire Robertson is a postdoctoral scientist in cancer bioengineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Although researchers have known that nitrites and nitrates at high doses can cause cancer in lab animals, de la Monte's results suggest that long - term, low - dose exposure to the compounds may be linked to chronic diseases in humans.

«In our studies we avoided the problem of unreliable lab tests by tracking the origin and development of cancer - driving mutations in MDS patients,» says Professor Jacobsen, who also holds a guest professorship at the Karolinska Institutet.

Raghu Kalluri, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson, managed to return to his lab this morning to find everything in working order: Freezers full of important samples had been protected by backup generators, and facilities housing research animals had stayed dry.

Neil Johnson's lab at the Fox Chase Cancer Center examined treatment resistance in breast cancer cells expressing the same BRCA1185delAG mutation and determined that the RING - deficient BRCA1 protein was also responsible for loss of sensitivity to certain types of cancer treatCancer Center examined treatment resistance in breast cancer cells expressing the same BRCA1185delAG mutation and determined that the RING - deficient BRCA1 protein was also responsible for loss of sensitivity to certain types of cancer treatcancer cells expressing the same BRCA1185delAG mutation and determined that the RING - deficient BRCA1 protein was also responsible for loss of sensitivity to certain types of cancer treatcancer treatments.

First author Baoshan Xu, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research associate in the Gerton Lab now starting his own lab at Sun Yat - sen University in China, worked with Hua Li, Ph.D., to use computational methods to count the number of copies of ribosomal DNA in normal and cancer cells of 162 patients from the eight projecLab now starting his own lab at Sun Yat - sen University in China, worked with Hua Li, Ph.D., to use computational methods to count the number of copies of ribosomal DNA in normal and cancer cells of 162 patients from the eight projeclab at Sun Yat - sen University in China, worked with Hua Li, Ph.D., to use computational methods to count the number of copies of ribosomal DNA in normal and cancer cells of 162 patients from the eight projects.

The couple, cancer biologists Renata Pasqualini and Wadih Arap, who run a lab together at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has a unique way of thinking about drug develocancer biologists Renata Pasqualini and Wadih Arap, who run a lab together at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has a unique way of thinking about drug develoCancer Center in Houston, Texas, has a unique way of thinking about drug development.

His name was Richard Gibson, a lab technician at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance who had tested Drew's blood.

The FBI charges that the substance was stolen, along with research data on its potential cancer - fighting properties, from the lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where the alleged perpetrator worked.

Given the widespread use of the HeLa cell line, Lars Steinmetz and his colleagues at EMBL decided that conducting an extensive analysis of its genome could illustrate the changes caused by cancer — and also help researchers compare versions of the cell line that have evolved over decades of growth in labs around the world.

The researchers inserted between 10,000 and 40,000 of these small RNAs at once into breast cancer, colon cancer, and normal human cells in the lab.

«The work from Lynne Maquat's lab is critical because it demonstrates the role for NMD in cancer cell survival and shows us how the NDM pathway might be connected to chemotherapy response,» said Hartmut «Hucky» Land, Ph.D., director of research at the Wilmot Cancer Instcancer cell survival and shows us how the NDM pathway might be connected to chemotherapy response,» said Hartmut «Hucky» Land, Ph.D., director of research at the Wilmot Cancer InstCancer Institute.

A new technique developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will let a single cancer research lab do the work of dozens, dramatically accelerating the search for new treatments and cures.

«In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions, you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on,» says Vincent Liu, a graduate student in Cima's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and lead author of the paper.

Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab at IRB Barcelona, participated in the «Càpsules de ciència» video series produced by TV3.

Evan Paull, a graduate student in Stuart's lab at UC Santa Cruz (now at Columbia University), led the computational analyses, which involved integrating the phosphoproteomic data with genomic and gene expression datasets to provide a unified view of the activated signaling pathways in late stage prostate cancer.