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Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine: is a form of alternative medicine which proponents say focuses on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems, but competitors have described it as "pseudoscientific silliness" and quackery.
SEP 24, 2014 | 2:00 PM
The RNA-guided nuclease Cas9 from the microbial CRISPR adaptive immune system has emerged as an exciting tool for precise genome editing in eukaryotic cells. This presentation will discuss th...
SEP 24, 2014 | 2:00 PM
Master regulatory transcription factors localize to the genome in a manner influenced by chromatin accessibility and influencing global chromatin structure. With an interest in understanding...
SEP 24, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Antibiotics are among the most important advances in the history of modern medicine. They turned often acutely fatal infections into treatable indications with radical cures. Antibiotics co...
SEP 24, 2014 | 6:00 AM
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked genetic disease occurring in 1 in 3,500 births, and is uniformly fatal in boys. It is caused by any one of over 50 known mutations in the gen...
SEP 24, 2014 | 5:00 AM
Since leaving Pfizer to go back to academia in 2007, Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee, UK) has been a leading researcher in the search for new informatics and computational methods to imp...
AUG 20, 2014 | 2:15 PM
Understanding how genes coordinate their expression across cells in a growing embryo can provide insights into the transcriptional programs that control development. Intercellular variability...
AUG 20, 2014 | 8:45 AM
In 2010, our team of synthetic biologists announced the creation of a bacterial cell that had a chemically synthesized genome. To build this synthetic Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI 1.0 we had to d...
AUG 20, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Structural variants (SVs), defined as the deletion, duplication, insertion, inversion or translocation of genomic regions, are both a major source of genetic diversity in human populations an...
MAY 29, 2014 | 12:00 PM
The human genome encodes ~21,500 proteins that are subject to reversible phosphorylation at nearly 1 million phosphosites by about 538 protein kinases and 156 protein phosphatases. Amongst ot...
MAY 29, 2014 | 10:30 AM
Obesity is a disease. It was once not considered to be a disease and to be a matter of will power and gluttony. It was also the case that we once thought that fat tissue had no metabolic func...
MAR 20, 2014 | 2:00 PM
The therapeutic utility of stem cells is rooted in an understanding -- and exploitation -- of their natural role from earliest development to lifes end. Their job is first to participate in o...
