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Fibrosis
Fibrosis: is the formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ or tissue in a reparative or reactive process. This can be a reactive, benign, or pathological state. In response to injury, this is called scarring, and if fibrosis arises from a single cell line, this is called a fibroma.
APR 12, 2018 | 9:00 AM
The Whiteson lab uses culture-independent metagenomics, metabolomics, and ecological statistics along with hypothesis driven, reductionist microbiology to answer questions about how bacteria...
FEB 22, 2018 | 1:30 PM
GPCRs constitute the largest receptor family in the human genome. Over the years they have proven themselves to be druggable targets accounting for about 1/3 of all drugs on the market today....
SEP 13, 2017 | 12:00 PM
Background: In March 2014, a molecular cluster of five multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Austrian National Reference Laboratory. An investigation was initiate...
JUN 14, 2017 | 6:00 AM
DATE: June 14, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET, 3:00pm CETComprehensive metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) offers a holistic approach for understanding the phenotype of an organis...
MAY 09, 2017 | 10:00 AM
DATE: May 9th, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PDT, 1:00PM ETMyeloproliferative neoplasms including myelofibrosis (MF) are characterized by anemia, splenomegaly, bone marrow fibrosis and inflammatory...
APR 12, 2017 | 7:30 AM
As next generation sequencing has lowered the price of DNA sequencing orders of magnitude below what it cost to create the first consensus human genome, the sheer diversity of human sequence...
FEB 09, 2017 | 9:00 AM
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETTraditional models of liver fibrosis in rodents involve many weeks of induction, with frequent injections of a pro-fibrotic agent. The m...
