Sentences with phrase «cell biology becomes»

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From the early 1990's these cell components started to become more and more of a focus in molecular and cell biology.

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

I took another 2 - year postdoc in a cell biology laboratory, which was unrelated to my previous research training, but it had become a hot breeding ground of novel scientific findings.

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.

After finishing my medical training in Germany, conducting some research in France, and doing a postdoc in the United States, I settled in France for good in 1995, becoming a professor of cell and molecular biology at the University of Bordeaux.

During this period, he became interested in cell and molecular biology thanks in part to discussions he had with a roommate about his graduate research in Iowa's microbiology program.

«Developing the tools required to do that I think is going to become very important,» says Stephen Minger, a senior lecturer in stem cell biology at King's College London in the UK.

Decades of work in developmental biology have provided a start: Biologists have used mutant frogs, flies, mice, chicks, and fish to identify some of the main genes that control a developing cell's decision to become a bone cell or a muscle cell.

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.

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

The results suggest that drugs capable of targeting similar molecular pathways in human fat cells could one day become major tools for fighting the growing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, an assistant professor of cell and tissue biology in UCSF's School of Dentistry.

She was promoted to associate professor of cell and developmental biology in 1999, and full professor in 2006, becoming the scientific director of AFCRI in 2007.

In fact, how the protein becomes part of cancer cell biology isn't well understood.

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.»

That might suffice for static samples, like solid materials or fixed cells, but when it comes to biology, things become more complicated.

With the ability to become all of the blood cells — including your immune cells, red blood cells, all of your blood system, as well as vasculature — hemangioblasts have been biology's holy grail.

«Stem cell biology has become one of the most exciting and promising areas of research, with real impact on how we treat human disease,» said Gladstone President R. Sanders Williams, MD. «With its meetings and journals, ISSCR has developed a significant role in communicating and promoting groundbreaking advances in the field.

Gary transitioned to independence in the laboratory of Charles Cochrane at the Scripps Research Institute, and rose through the ranks to become a professor in the departments of immunology and cell biology in 1998.

«Under a high - fat diet, these non-stem cells acquire the properties of stem cells so that when they are transformed they become tumorigenic,» says Whitehead Member David Sabatini, who is also an MIT professor of biology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Embryonic stem cells, discovered in the Department of Genetics in the 1980s (for which Sir Martin Evans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007), have become an important tool for developmental biology, understanding disease, and in regenerative medicine due to the ability to give rise to all cell types in culture.

The website is a perfect complement to the «Stem Cells in Focus» blog, housing informational pages on basic stem cell biology, the process by which science becomes medicine, clinical trials and the use of stem cells in understanding and potentially treating specific health conditCells in Focus» blog, housing informational pages on basic stem cell biology, the process by which science becomes medicine, clinical trials and the use of stem cells in understanding and potentially treating specific health conditcells in understanding and potentially treating specific health conditions.

«I originally trained as a developmental biologist, then, during my postdoc in stem cell biology, I became interested in research showing that the growth of brain tumours might be driven by cells similar to neural stem cells.

«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

«As we continue to advance our knowledge of tumor biology, we have learned that cancer cells have a remarkable ability to adapt and become resistant to targeted therapies.

The researchers, led by Susan Lindquist, PhD, the Albert D. Lasker professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and Howard Hughes Investigator, found that the prion — determining region of prion proteins — the part of the prion protein that misfolds - can be transplanted onto other proteins, causing them to become prion - like.

Now that stem cells (cells that retain the ability to become almost any other type of cell) are the subject of intense study in biology, maybe there is something to not being so quick to differentiate.