Sentences with phrase «cell biology major»

«It was the first time I had ever received a grade lower than a B, and it was upsetting,» admits Mercado, a biochemistry and cell biology major at the University of California, San Diego.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Zachary Howard, a Washington State University genetics and cell biology major, has received a $ 7,500 distinguished scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for the 2018 - 19 academic year.

I completed my PhD as a cell biology major in an engineering lab, where I established a new assay to answer questions very different from what the main part of the lab was working on.

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The elusive e-mailers, who claim to be part of a group called the Stem Cell Research Watch Group, responded to an e-mail from Science saying that they are «a group of students majoring in biology and often discuss papers that are taught in class.»

Building upon their earlier research on the biology of fat metabolism, Joslin scientists discovered that microRNAs - small RNA molecules that play important roles in regulation in many types of tissue — play a major role in the distribution and determination of fat cells and whole body metabolism.

«Studying human islet cells has been a major challenge in the field of diabetes research for decades because the pancreas essentially digests itself shortly after a person's death,» said professor of developmental biology Seung Kim, MD, PhD.

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.

This led to development of newer technology, called single cell sequencing (SCS), that has had a major impact in many areas of biology, including cancer research, neurobiology, microbiology, and immunology, and has greatly improved understanding of certain tumor characteristics in cancer.

«This is a major step forward» in determining how proteins fold, says Peter Preusch, who heads cell biology and biophysics research at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

As an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.

«We may have discovered a major step toward developing a «dream tool» for remotely controlling neural circuits, by manipulating specific cells using engineered gene products that respond to magnets,» said Ali Deniz Güler, a UVA biology professor who led the study in his neuroscience lab.

Clara Franzini — Armstrong writes about Annemarie Weber, «a major contributor to the renaissance of muscle biology research in the 1950s to 1970s, when the components of the contractile machinery were identified; novel views of muscle contraction and regulation were elucidated; and principles of energy transduction, motility and intracellular signaling common to all cells were revealed.»

The field of stem cell biology has made major and continuing progress over the last few years towards achieving its much heralded aim of impacting human health.

Teaching Non-majors biology university core, freshman form; cell and molecular biology (lower and upper division biology majors core); genetics; advanced cell biology (graduate students) research ethics (graduate students), upper division / graduate electives (developmental biology, selected advanced topics in cell and molecular biology).

This major discovery resolves a heated debate in the field, as it finally answers a question that has been discussed in biology for over a century: Before dividing in two, DNA in a cell is comparable with spaghetti — a messy mixture of intermingled strands.

Features This full - color book is divided into six major sections, covering basic stem cell biology, general methods, organ system - based applications, and regulations and ethics, among other topics.

Supplies: The amount of money requested for supplies should be divided into major research supply categories (e.g., cell biology reagents, test fees, etc.) If animals are to be involved, the justification should state how many are to be used, their unit purchase price, and their unit care cost.

Research in the Newmark laboratory utilizes the tools of molecular cell biology and functional genomics to address several major biological problems for which planarians serve as excellent models.

But in fact, she intended to major in molecular cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, when, as a freshman, she enrolled in «Introduction to Acting» to fulfill a distribution requirement.

According to the ASCB Constitution, the major objectives of the Minorities Affairs Committee are to provide opportunities for underrepresented minorities in the field of cell biology and to develop careers of minorities in cell biology.

Decreased costs, increased analysis speed and easier access to mass spectrometry instruments and user - friendly software will have a major impact in cell biology research.

The prevailing view in regenerative biology has been that the major obstacle to heart regeneration in mammals is insufficient proliferation of cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells.

Recognizing the remarkable opportunities to apply single cell technologies to major questions in biology and medicine, JAX recently launched a joint center for single cell genomics together with the University of Connecticut, including UConn Health.

A major initiative of the Core is the development of the Comparative Models of Regeneration Database (RegenDB) to provide a systems - level view of regenerative biology and stem cell self - renewal.

Comprised of eight chapters, the text addresses all of the major facets and disciplines related to stem cell biology and research.

«Over recent years, major investments in research in areas like immunology, cell biology and genetics have provided impressive insights into the basic biology of fundamental processes, such as injury, repair and neoplasia (abnormal cancerous tissue growth),» Elias said.

The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases.

We support 10 major research thematic areas including — immunotherapy, stem cells, genomics, epigenetics, diagnostics, proteomics and computational biology, cancer imaging, drug development, supportive care and other key areas.

Dogs receive some Vitamin D via sunlight exposure but dietary sources are much more important to canines because of some major differences in cell biology compared to us humans.