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SCIENCE OF AGING With Elizabeth Blackburn of The Salk Institute and Clifton Leaf of Fortune — Report
by Erika Fry — Video: The Secret to Making
Cells Live Longer
February 2, 2017
By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health
sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem
cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.
These were not studies published in fly -
by - night oncology journals, but blockbuster research featured in
Science, Nature,
Cell, and the like.
Biology can be designated as a
science logically distinct from physics and chemistry because its heuristic field is constituted
by questions directed toward whole organisms (plants and animals),
cells and their «achievements» rather than toward atoms and molecules as such.
What I said was to remove all encroachment on other's lives
by religion, e.g.
science class creationism, bans on stem
cell research, etc..
It is only
by a leap of
science - fiction (the kind exemplified
by Teilhard de Chardin's «psychical dust» and subsequent «complexification» theory) that psychicalized
cells can be transformed into my awareness of myself.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem
cells that does not compromise either the
science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced
by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
One clear positive element in the stem -
cell debate for me was hearing the top researchers in biomedical
science reinforce The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 343: «Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as the inspired account expresses
by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of other creatures»).
If you do not believe in
science can we deny you modern medicine, modern sanitation, your auto, consumer electronics, including cell phones and your computer, all created by S
science can we deny you modern medicine, modern sanitation, your auto, consumer electronics, including
cell phones and your computer, all created
by SCIENCESCIENCE.
RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New
Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals,
cells, organs and organisms are organized
by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.
Culturing stem
cells by day, and audiences in dingy stand - up clubs
by night, it wasn't until Helen Pilcher left the lab that she started basing her comedy on
science.
Immunophenotyping — a laboratory procedure used to study the proteins expressed
by cells — is very commonly used in basic
science research as well as in laboratory diagnostic testing.
Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a
science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies
cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants
by 2030 in Alberta.
«We found that the syncytiotrophoblasts formed in our system recapitulated the barrier properties of the naturally occurring
cells and they resisted infection
by a model virus and three genetically different strains of Toxoplasma,» said co-investigator Jon P. Boyle, Ph.D., associate professor of biological
sciences at Pitt.
The researchers are building on their current findings, which they say establishes a system for reconstituting
cell fusion in mammalian
cells, a feat not yet achieved
by biomedical
science.
Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led
by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological
sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected
by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host
cells.
The survey, described today in a Policy Forum published
by Science, randomly presented people with different vignettes that described genome editing being used in germline or somatic
cells to either treat disease or enhance a human with, say, a gene linked to higher IQ or eye color.
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health
Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the
cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
Contacted
by Science about the e-mail, one of the corresponding authors, Thomas Perlmann of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, responded that the images are from triple immunohistochemistry staining, so are indeed from the same set of
cells «displayed as double staining for clarity.»
This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National
Science Foundation - funded
Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way
cells exert and are influenced
by the physical forces in their environment.
Who We Are As Scientists 6 October 2006 Spurred
by the stem -
cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues in
science.
Chien Ho, professor of biological
sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs
by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of
cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.
The research, published in the current issue of the journal
Science, demonstrates that brain
cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted
by neurons in response to injury and disease.
Twenty - first century
science is driven, in large part,
by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life
sciences — public health, ecology, genomics,
cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical
sciences.
One group, led
by Ryan O'Hayre, a materials scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, reported last year in
Science that it had produced an intermediate temperature fuel
cell capable of producing 455 mW / cm2.
The research was conducted in the lab of Dr. Ravid Straussman of the Weizmann Institute of
Science's Molecular
Cell Biology Department, led
by his graduate student Leore Geller and conducted in collaboration with Dr. Todd Golub and Dr. Michal Barzily - Rokini of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The research was supported
by the National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, the Rose Hills Foundation Research Award, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's Bridges Program and the UCLA Broad Stem
Cell Research Center.
The site would not only include access to studies published
by AAAS journals such as
Science — it would include embargoed access to studies from a number of other top journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet,
Cell, and The Astrophysical Journal.
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.
Spurred
by the stem -
cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues in
science
The continued marketing and use of experimental stem
cell - based interventions inside and outside the United States is problematic and unsustainable, according to a new paper
by science policy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest University.
The paper, «Unproven Stem
Cell - based Interventions and Achieving a Compromise Policy Among the Multiple Stakeholders,» was co-authored
by Kirstin Matthews, a lecturer in natural
sciences at Rice and fellow in
science and technology policy at the Baker Institute, and Ana Iltis, a professor of philosophy and director of Wake Forest's Center for Bioethics, Health and Society.
Simultaneously, the research team in CRAG led
by Ana Caño Delgado discovered more details on the root growth and its post-damaged
cell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of Cell Scie
cell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of
Cell Scie
Cell Science.
The news was widely covered (including in
Science) that Woo - Suk Hwang and his team claimed to have created individually tailored hESCs
by cloning skin
cells.
A team led
by Zhigang Zou of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, has improved solar
cells by tweaking a photocatalyst to get what Zou calls «the right band gap.»
The study was supported
by a
Science of Human Appearance Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and
by grants from the Medical Research Council of the UK, the Empire State Development's Division of
Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York Stem
Cell Science (NYSTEM), and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in the UK (BBSRC), as well as earlier support from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.
In the study published in the journal
Science Signaling, the team led
by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem
cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.
The projects vary slightly in their aims — the US BRAIN initiative will start
by cataloguing the types of
cells in the brain and how they wire together, while the China Brain
Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
A team of researchers led
by Rodrigo Lacruz, MSc, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic
Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU College of Dentistry, has published a paper in Scientific Reports (5:15803) titled «Dental enamel
cells express functional SOCE channels,» which reports the results of a study showing for the first time the mechanism of calcium transport essential in the formation of dental enamel.
Weissman - Unni's images took first place in a 2006 contest sponsored
by the Barcelona
Science Museum and have been featured everywhere from an online photo gallery for the journal
Cell to the Web site of the Museum of Modern Art.
A team headed
by Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich did now reveal which inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord are responsible for this control function: As the study published in the
science journal Neuron shows, the control
cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messenger.
Prof Robin Lovell Badge, Crick Institute, on the
science: «The experiments reported
by Junjiu Huang and colleagues (Liang et al) in the journal Protein
Cell on gene editing in abnormally fertilised human embryos are, I expect, the first of several that we will see this year.
Researchers led
by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied
Science, said the new
cells could serve as a power - generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users» ability to see through the surface.
In contrast, a team led
by the Broad's Feng Zhang reported in the 3 January 2013 online edition of
Science that it had used CRISPR to cut DNA in human
cells, opening the door for the tool to be used in medicine.
Toys Forces of Nature A toy mimics the biological architecture of human
cells By William Jacobs Tensegritoy Design
Science, $ 24.95 www.tensegritoy.com Under pressure?
This question was answered in research published in the current online edition of Molecular
Cell,
by senior author Eileen White, PhD, associate director for basic
science at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and colleagues.
«This development has the potential to enable earlier detection of solid tumors through a simple blood draw
by substantially improving our ability to detect very low quantities of circulating DNA derived from tumor
cells,» says corresponding author Hunter Underhill, M.D., Ph.D., who initiated the research while in the lab of senior author Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in genome
sciences at the University of Washington.
This work, conducted
by Yuliang Wang, now a senior research associate at Oregon Health &
Science University, uncovered intriguing differences involving genes that affect the
cells» metabolism.
His work has been recognized
by the GE &
Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, the Michael and Kate Bárány Award, the American Society for
Cell Biology - Gibco Emerging Leader Prize, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.