Sentences with phrase «cell biology as»

Dr. Ivey came to Gladstone as a postdoctoral scholar in 2005, and trained in stem cell biology as a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scholar for 3 years.

AJHG provides a record of research and review relating to heredity in humans, the application of genetic principles in medicine and public policy, and related areas of molecular and cell biology as well as behavioral, molecular, biochemical, population, and clinical genetics.

The categories for this annual award are genomics / proteomics / systems biology, developmental biology, molecular and cell biology as well as environmental life science.

«It's a new paradigm that's really transforming our understanding of cell biology as a whole.»

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By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

Molecular biology, contrary to the article, does not support evolution by natural chance because evolution can not occur without inheritance, inheritance can not occur without DNA and DNA is so complex it could not have evolved by chance unless we are to assume that molecules just happened to arrange themselves into the DNA molecule at the same times as a nucleus formed to hold the DNA, at the same time as the cell membrane just happened to form around it, at the sametime as all the cell maintaining process in the cytoplasm just happened to come into existence to form a single cell and that all these aspects just happened to come together and work harmoniously.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Dennis has a PhD in genetics / developmental biology from the University of British Columbia and a special interest in studying pattern formation and cell - cell communication during tissue development using fruit flies as a model organism.

Kauffman was trained as a physician, but gave up medical practice to study fundamental questions in biology: «I entered biology because the magnificent wonder of cell differentiation overwhelmed me» (HU94).

The audience roars with laughter as Polish tells how he initiated select new members into the cell biology lab he worked in after college with strategically placed miniature dry - ice bombs fabricated from plastic Eppendorf test tubes.

The German - born Frank, who was inducted as a AAAS fellow in 1997, is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and biological sciences at Columbia in New York City and the Scottish - born Henderson, who has been a AAAS member since 1996, has served as director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology research facility where hundreds of scientists work on neurobiology, cell biology and biotechnology.

I decided to leave research after becoming dissatisfied as a postdoc in an academic cell biology department.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

«Mitochondria arose as a bacterial intruder in ancient cells, and much of their biology has to be understood in this light.

The Virtual Cell, or VCell as it's known, is a software platform that offers the most comprehensive set of modeling and simulation capabilities for cell biology in the woCell, or VCell as it's known, is a software platform that offers the most comprehensive set of modeling and simulation capabilities for cell biology in the wocell biology in the world.

To acquire new insights into the biology and possible therapy of these tumors, Feigin et al. looked for aberrant expression of G protein — coupled receptors, cell signaling proteins that have been successfully targeted for treatment of other disorders such as depression.

As an assistant professor of cell biology and neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), zur Nieden has two more years before going up for her tenure review.

The Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding international neurobiological research based on current methods and advances in the field of molecular and cell biology by a young early - career scientist, as described in a 1,000 - word essay based on research performed within the last three years.

«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

Xian - Cheng Jiang, PhD, professor of cell biology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has led a study identifying a new approach for lowering «bad» lipids in blood circulation, a critical means to combat devastating cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis.

Likewise, at BD Biosciences in San Jose, California, jobs include opportunities for scientists in many different disciplines (biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, chemistry), as well as hardware and software engineering of all descriptions.

They are very important in medicine — most medications available now are small molecules — as well as in biology as probes to uncover the inner workings of cells and tissues.

The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope, Spencer Nadler (Random House) Nadler ventures out of his pathology lab to meet patients and ruminates on the interplay between flawed biology and radiant humanity.

Rumors are swirling within Harvard that the university's stem cell and regenerative biology department may stay in Cambridge rather than move to the new complex in 2011, as currently planned.

This led me to enter the field of developmental and cell biology, and to eventually discover cyclin as a key regulator of the cell cycle.

As a result, 3D cell culture systems have become a staple of cell biology.

Weinberg, who is also a professor of biology at MIT, says he has created cancer cells in culture by adding oncogenes — as, he stresses, have hundreds of others.

In my early years, I spent more time in the molecular biology lab, but I gradually moved into the biomaterial engineering lab as I got fascinated by the possibilities of combining biomaterials and cell biology.

Mary Ellen Lane, associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, says that the anxieties she hears from current Ph.D. students are similar to the concerns she and her peers had as cell biology doctoral students in the late 80s and early 90s.

The study, «VlincRNAs controlled by retroviral elements are a hallmark of pluripotency and cancer» found that novel non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs (very long intergenic, non-coding RNAs) triggered by ancient viruses, participate in the biology of stem cells, and in the development of cancer.

This general approach, known as lineage - tracing, has been a mainstay of classical developmental biology research and has greatly clarified knowledge of tissue stem cells during the last decade.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.

Rokhsar, a UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and of physics, also heads OIST's Molecular Genetics Unit as a visiting professor.

As a result, they say, the origin of the first eukaryotic cell has remained «one of the most enduring mysteries in modern biology.»

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

«It will be immediately relevant to many areas of fundamental cell biology research and practical applications such as drug discovery.

«We're excited about the application of CombiGEM to probe complex multifactorial phenotypes, such as stem cell differentiation, cancer biology, and synthetic circuits,» Lu says.

Moreover, as genomes of other animals are sequenced, «there will be a lot of biology that will be clarified,» says Tom Pollard, a cell biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.

«Previous research has shown that CTCF acts as a key insulating barrier to prevent mistakes in cells as they multiply and differentiate,» says Varun Narendra, the study's lead author, and a fifth - year graduate PhD student in developmental biology at NYU Langone and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

As the fall semester begins at U.S. high schools and universities, the rites of introductory biology begin anew: Tens of thousands of students are listening to lectures on photosynthesis, memorizing parts of the cell, and learning the terms of taxonomy.

Alternative cell lines, such as induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patient skin cells, offer a more accurate window on human biology, he says.

Mathew Garnett, a cancer biologist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, says that HeLa cells could prove useful for studying aspects of the biology of cervical tumors, such as their response to cancer drugs.

As for next research steps, the investigators will seek to exploit the SRY database and its evolutionary linkages to other SOX transcription factors to explore applications to stem - cell biology and cancer.

As well as the potential to produce pigment - correct skin grafts, the team's 3D bioprinting method could also be used to develop skin constructs for toxicology testing and fundamental cell biology researcAs well as the potential to produce pigment - correct skin grafts, the team's 3D bioprinting method could also be used to develop skin constructs for toxicology testing and fundamental cell biology researcas the potential to produce pigment - correct skin grafts, the team's 3D bioprinting method could also be used to develop skin constructs for toxicology testing and fundamental cell biology research.

Whatever their origin, the genetic changes raise questions over the widespread use of HeLa cells as models for human cell biology, Steinmetz says.

Last summer he also renewed ties with UCSF as titled researcher in stem cell biology and professor of anatomy.

As we started to try to understand the biology of these stem cells, it very quickly became clear that we needed information about the genetic content of these organisms.»