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Cancer Genomics
Cancer Genomics is a relatively new research area that takes advantage of recent technological advances to study the human genome, meaning our full set of DNA. Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer.
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NOV 30, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
All of the information needed for building an organism is contained within its genome, present in every cell. When new p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 30, 2016Immunology
For rhesus monkeys (and probably humans, too), popularity counts. A new study from Duke University shows that social sta ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 29, 2016Microbiology
Many of our drugs are derived from stuff found in nature, and as the development of new drugs becomes more critical to p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 28, 2016Cancer
A cancer drug that’s approved for the treatment of kidney cancer may also be effective against a form of muscular ...NOV 26, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
First detected by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, there are strange droplets in the cytoplasm of cells that are not well ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2016Cancer
A chemotherapy drug that’s comparably milder than other drugs has been found to extend survival for acute myeloid ...NOV 21, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
For women at high risk for cervical cancer, Hopkins researchers say they have a new diagnostic test that’s both no ...NOV 20, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A study published in Cell demonstrated how the brains of patients with different kinds of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In a historic, landmark clinical trial, Chinese researchers injected a patient with a shot of CRISPR-edited white blood ...NOV 19, 2016Cancer
Rhabdoid meningiomas are among one of the most aggressive brain cancer types. Furthermore, doctors have a difficult time ...NOV 16, 2016Cancer
LA JOLLA, CA – November 16, 2016 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) de ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)NOV 15, 2016Immunology
Every day the cells of the human immune system have to make a decision: self or foreign? The wrong decision leads to aut ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 15, 2016Cancer
Cellular aging is thought to be controlled, in part, by the chromosomes’ telomeres – end caps that protect o ...NOV 12, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells cannot constantly divide; they must be able to exist in a suspended state in which they are metabolically active b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 11, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are hard at work improving immune cells called T cells, which are naturally designed to recognize and target ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 10, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope to squash any preconceived notions that the occasional cigarette ...NOV 05, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Genetic information has to be copied in order to eventually create the proteins that are needed for an organism to funct ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 04, 2016Videos
High school is definitely more academically rigorous than it has been in the past, but one group of high school students ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 03, 2016Cardiology
Risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease are often thought to be obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and environmental ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 02, 2016Cancer
Increasingly, doctors are recognizing the impact of genetic differences on disease and treatment outcomes. This realizat ...NOV 01, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells are divided into organelles that help accomplish all of the various tasks of a cell. One organelle, the mitochondr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 30, 2016Videos
Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive treatment for a health problem, and discovered that she had ce ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 29, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
"If you have a damaged cell, you don't want it to replicate," explained computational biophysicist Rommie ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 26, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Publishing in Cell Reports, researchers have identified a link between the molecular mechanism of Ewing’s sarcoma, ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
All of the information needed for building an organism is contained within its genome, present in every cell. When new p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2016
Immunology
For rhesus monkeys (and probably humans, too), popularity counts. A new study from Duke University shows that social sta
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 29, 2016
Microbiology
Many of our drugs are derived from stuff found in nature, and as the development of new drugs becomes more critical to p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 28, 2016
Cancer
A cancer drug that’s approved for the treatment of kidney cancer may also be effective against a form of muscular
...
NOV 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
First detected by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, there are strange droplets in the cytoplasm of cells that are not well
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2016
Cancer
A chemotherapy drug that’s comparably milder than other drugs has been found to extend survival for acute myeloid
...
NOV 21, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
For women at high risk for cervical cancer, Hopkins researchers say they have a new diagnostic test that’s both no
...
NOV 20, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A study published in Cell demonstrated how the brains of patients with different kinds of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a historic, landmark clinical trial, Chinese researchers injected a patient with a shot of CRISPR-edited white blood
...
NOV 19, 2016
Cancer
Rhabdoid meningiomas are among one of the most aggressive brain cancer types. Furthermore, doctors have a difficult time
...
NOV 16, 2016
Cancer
LA JOLLA, CA – November 16, 2016 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) de
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
NOV 15, 2016
Immunology
Every day the cells of the human immune system have to make a decision: self or foreign? The wrong decision leads to aut
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 15, 2016
Cancer
Cellular aging is thought to be controlled, in part, by the chromosomes’ telomeres – end caps that protect o
...
NOV 12, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells cannot constantly divide; they must be able to exist in a suspended state in which they are metabolically active b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are hard at work improving immune cells called T cells, which are naturally designed to recognize and target
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 10, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope to squash any preconceived notions that the occasional cigarette
...
NOV 05, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Genetic information has to be copied in order to eventually create the proteins that are needed for an organism to funct
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
High school is definitely more academically rigorous than it has been in the past, but one group of high school students
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 03, 2016
Cardiology
Risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease are often thought to be obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and environmental
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2016
Cancer
Increasingly, doctors are recognizing the impact of genetic differences on disease and treatment outcomes. This realizat
...
NOV 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells are divided into organelles that help accomplish all of the various tasks of a cell. One organelle, the mitochondr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 30, 2016
Videos
Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive treatment for a health problem, and discovered that she had ce
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
"If you have a damaged cell, you don't want it to replicate," explained computational biophysicist Rommie
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Publishing in Cell Reports, researchers have identified a link between the molecular mechanism of Ewing’s sarcoma,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch