Sentences with phrase «cell sciences at»

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

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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.

According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

Just look at how evolution science formulates an idea of how life began: Certain elements of matter came together to form a single cell.

Judging the entries were Bob Goldman of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert Krulwich, science correspondent for National Public Radio, Dave Mosher, science and technology correspondent for Business Insider, and Clare Waterman, of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics at the National Institute of Health.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

The Cell Lab at the Science Museum of Minnesota allows kids from kindergarten to 12th grade to play science detectives while introducing them to human physiology, genetics and cell biolCell Lab at the Science Museum of Minnesota allows kids from kindergarten to 12th grade to play science detectives while introducing them to human physiology, genetics and cell bScience Museum of Minnesota allows kids from kindergarten to 12th grade to play science detectives while introducing them to human physiology, genetics and cell bscience detectives while introducing them to human physiology, genetics and cell biolcell biology.

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.

Though not a perfect example, this cold email resulted in a 30 - minute phone conversation with a senior editor at a Cell - Science - Nature journal.

Toxicologist Thomas Hartung described these minibrains, grown from stem cells derived from people's skin cells, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.

Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organCells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organcells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

In several recent papers, Prof. Shen and colleagues at the Micro / Bio / Nanofluidics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), described their creation of a new biosensing material that can be used to monitor processes in living cells.

«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.

«In theory, conventional single - junction solar cells can only achieve an efficiency level of about 34 percent, but in practice they don't achieve that,» said study co-author Paul Braun, a professor of materials science at Illinois.

«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Scientists at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago found a «remarkable similarity» between the cells that support the growth and development in placentas and in tumors.

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.

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.

Last year Cuervo collaborated with Sheng Zhang, a professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on experiments showing that huntingtin — the Huntington's disease protein — helps the cell's autophagy system identify what it should eliminate.

However, Stephen Back, a neurologist at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, points out that there is not yet proof that myelin - producing cells are stuck in arrested development in infants with brain injuries, although this has been shown both in mice and in adults with multiple sclerosis.

The only way the team can be sure they have grown the equivalent of a fetal brain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

Editors from Cell, Science, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine shared the podium at the Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career Science, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine shared the podium at the Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career science editing as a career choice.

Also look at the institution's broader scientific environment, because «you can benefit from help even from people that are not with the label «biomaterials,»» says Dupont - Gillain, who, as a bioengineer and physical chemist, collaborates with colleagues in surface science and cell biologists to develop biomimetic surfaces that can trigger desired cell behaviors.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

The team that included Gary Baker, an assistant professor of chemistry in the MU College of Arts and Science and Gerardo Gutierrez - Juarez, a professor and investigator at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico, decided to supplement an emerging technique called photoacoustic (PA) spectroscopy, a specialized optical technique that is used to probe tissues and cells non-invasively.

Despite decades of research, hydrogen fuel cells have failed to replace combustion engines in cars, thanks in large part to the cost of their platinum catalysts, says Signe Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

After gaining a degree in molecular sciences from Wageningen University in 1991, he left the Netherlands to do his PhD on the structure of membrane protein at the Cell and Molecular Biosciences division of the University of Newcastle's medical school.

In work presented in March to a committee of the National Academies, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington, placed malicious software on an unspecified car's computer system using its own Bluetooth and cell phone connections.

We can find it «in any type of device ranging from traditional cell phones to today's smartphones, and even in our washing machine,» explained one of the researchers, Guillermo Suarez de Tangil, from the Computer Science Department at UC3M.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shed light on the subject, especially on the movement of immune cells that race to the sites of infection and inflammation.

A group of scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and collaborators at Stockholm University showed for the first time how this big protein complex inside living E. coli cells disassembles after each round of division.

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.

In London last week at the World Conference of Science Journalists, Philip Hilts, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., reviewed the worldwide state of Internet and cell phone use, two of the major ways people now get news

Science Careers talked to Riccardo Guidi, a Ph.D. student at KI, in the department of cell and molecular biology, and co-founder of Queerolinska, about the Pride Parade and what it meant for lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered (LGBT) students.

Last November, she returned to Poland to take a group - leader position at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB) in Warsaw, utilizing returning grants from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

After an earlier stint as a senior writer at Science, where she was widely known for her coverage of the Human Genome Project, Leslie returned as a deputy news editor in 2000, specializing in public health, infectious diseases, stem cells, and ecology.

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.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

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.

Nevertheless,» [the] study is very important because it demonstrates for the first time that we can use gene therapy to transform cells in the brain into ones that will secrete GDNF,» says Jeffrey Kordower, a professor of neurological sciences at Rush Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago.

Currently a professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, he says it was his job to «examine how radiation in space affects solar cells and semiconductors.»

Once stem cells can be grown and differentiated in a controlled way to replace degenerated cells and repair tissues, medical science may then be able to diagnose and cure many intractable diseases at their earliest stages, such as type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, various cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and cancer.