Sentences with phrase «cell biologist»

The researchers said that the concepts used to assemble their circuit diagram could enable stem cell biologists to induce immature stem cells to develop into specific types of cells for therapeutic purposes.

Canadian cell biologist who reported in a recent thread that she had been discussing industry's requirements with a senior manager from a local biotech company.

I have a friend, a Ph.D. cell biologist, who decided to leave dreams of the tenure track behind, a common enough decision these days.

asks Doug Melton, a stem cell biologist at Harvard University.

The work «suggests that protein aggregation isn't irreversible,» says cell biologist David Smith of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Dr. Viczian is a stem cell biologist with expertise in transplantation and retinal cell biology.

But the phenomenon remained largely unexplored until a team led by cell biologist Michael Overholtzer of Harvard Medical School in Boston recently saw the same thing while working with a line of normal breast cells.

Henry Bourne, a retired cell biologist from UC San Francisco, calls it the «graying of the professoriate.»

The microscopic technique, developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, represents a major advance for cell biologists as it will allow them to investigate structures deep inside the cell, such as viruses, bacteria and parts of the nucleus in depth.

Research Focus: Dr. Signer is a stem cell biologist whose trailblazing work on protein synthesis in hematopoietic stem cells opened the door to unchartered areas of cellular investigation.

I might as well hire someone who demonstrated the interest and tenacity to stay in science,» says Bob van de Water, a molecular cell biologist at Leiden University.

People had always told him that he was a skilled and dynamic presenter — and because he had been the only cell biologist in his postdoc lab, he had become adept at explaining complex scientific concepts clearly to a broad array of scientists.

With a genetic tweaking of muscle fibers, Harvard University cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman turned ordinary mice into rodent triathletes.

In Circulation Research, Emory stem cell biologist Young - sup Yoon, MD, PhD and colleagues recently reported converting human skin fibroblast cells into endothelial cells, which line and maintain the health of blood vessels.

THYMISTEM combines a strong pan-European team of cell biologists and immunologists, specialists in the field of tissue engineering and cells and tissues banking.

«Any protein that interacts with PrP is likely to be interesting,» says cell biologist David Harris of Washington University in St. Louis, because it may be involved in both the protein's normal function as well as the disease - causing conversion.

Finally this month, the Nobel Prizes were handed out with Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, which it is hoped could lead to breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

The team of researchers, led by yeast cell biologist Susan Lindquist of the University of Chicago, had demonstrated last year that a metabolic trait in yeast called [PSI +] could be passed from one generation to the next without changes in the yeast's DNA.

«I hate it when [big claims go unreplicated], because it makes our field look like a field full of shams and frauds,» says stem cell biologist Irving Weissman of Stanford University.

They then combined these in a dish with testicular cells from newborn mice in various culture conditions — a process that took hundreds of trials, says author Xiao - Yang Zhao, a stem cell biologist now at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China.

Don Wiley, the late structural biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, mentioned that Elizabeth Blackburn, a postdoc in cell biologist Joseph Gall's lab at Yale University, had just published a curious finding.

In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

«It's an amazing result,» says cell biologist Mark Mercola of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

«Academic labs would have tried again, in a different way with a different cell dose, but [the replicators] were bound by the registered report,» says cancer stem cell biologist Sean Morrison of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, an eLife editor.

Congratulations to cancer cell biologist Dr. Karin Rodland at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on being elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has received the prize for his work on autophagy, a method for breaking down and recycling large pieces of cellular junk, such as clusters of damaged proteins or worn - out organelles.

9/24/2008 UC San Diego Names First George Palade Endowed Chair Distinguished cell biologist Peter Novick, Ph.D. appointed Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Peter Novick, Ph.D., whose groundbreaking work in the field of cell biology has contributed to a novel understanding of internal cellular transpo... More...

In the late 1970s, Olivia Pereira - Smith was working as a technician with cell biologist James Smith, her husband, at the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center in Lake Placid, New York.

«My sense is that there are different groups out there doing this kind of work, but they haven't opened up their labs» to reporters, says stem cell biologist Paul Knoepfler at the

Cancer is a disease of your cells, and sorting out your cancer from all others is a daunting challenge but one that cancer cell biologists are furiously pursuing.

That's where the approach taken in a recent paper in Cell Systems, by Emory cell biologist Victor Faundez and colleagues at Illinois State, comes in.

Cell biologist Vanesa Silvestri of Johns Hopkins...

The new method will allow cell biologists to accurately study the timing of endocytosis and what proteins are required.

In 2007, a 77 - year - old retired cell biologist named Roland Nardone decided to spend the final chapter of his life ending the rampant contamination.

That gap motivated stem cell biologist Takanori Takebe and his colleagues at the Department of Regenerative Medicine at Yokohama City University in Japan to find an alternate solution.

It's an important study, says cell biologist Junying Yuan of Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was a co-author on the earlier experiments that identified the importance of caspase - 2.

Protein chemist Michael Way, cell biologist Sally Cudmore, and their colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have found that vaccinia — a virus used in smallpox vaccines — surfs through cells on piles of actin, one of the basic structural proteins in the cellular skeleton.

Stem cell biologist Amy Wagers and cardiologist Richard Lee, both of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, wondered if any circulating factors, in young blood, such as hormones, might affect aging hearts.

A stem cell biologist known for work cloning mice, he says he was brought onto the team to produce the chimeric mice described in the paper.

«The last thing we need from a vaccine is more inflammatory damage,» says Shah, who has been working with Swedish cell biologist Jan Nilsson on a vaccine that boosts the antibodies responsible for gentle plaque removal while damping vessel - damaging inflammation.

«This unequivocally shows you can generate stem cells from primates, and we're primates,» says stem cell biologist Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer of the Worcester, Mass., company Advanced Cell Technology, who was not involved in the research.

Chava Kimchi - Sarfaty of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues report online this week in Science that such «silent mutations» can, under certain circumstances, determine how well a final protein performs — an «extremely provocative» result, says cell biologist William Skach of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Cell biologist Michael Way of the London Research Institute agrees that other viruses may also use the vaccinia infection strategy.

These include the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer; and another being organized by cell therapy pioneer Ivar Mendez at the University of Saskatchewan and Ole Isacson of Harvard.

Dr. Huard is an internationally recognized cell biologist conducting laboratory research into the therapeutic use of stem cells to treat a variety of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic diseases and injuries.

Seeing the potential virus was the easy part, says cell biologist Sanford Simon of Rockefeller University.

But when cell biologist Ana Rodríguez came to the same NYU department last year, she took a closer look.