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THE 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 Sscience 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 Sciecell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of Cell ScieCell 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.
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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.
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