Sensors that eavesdrop on conversations between the brain's neurons.
The human brain has billions of neurons that communicate by sending chemical and electrical signals. Mapping these electrical signals is critical to successful brain surgery and treatment of diseases like Epilepsy and Parkinson's. Researchers have developed an array of brain sensors that record ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Molecular Medicine in the War on Cancer: Success or Failure?
Office of NIH History Lecture Series A virologist is among the luckiest of biologists because he can see into his chosen pet down to the details of all of its molecules. ” --David Baltimore, 1975. Accepting his Nobel Prize for his part in the identification of reverse transcriptase, David Baltimore reflected on the “ luck ” that virologists enjoyed in their ability to see into problems with molecular precision. Although this vision seems inspiring and compelling today, Baltimore spoke at a time of fierce debate among biologists, legislators, and clinicians as to what, if anything, this molecular approach to disease o...
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The History of Cancer Virus Research
This is a continuation of the Office of NIH History Lecture Series. Speaker Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Associate Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, is an historian of the modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history. He is currently working on a project that follows the history of cancer virus research in the twentieth century from legislature to laboratory, documenting its origins and impact on the modern biological sciences. His other projects include the history of the biotechnology industry and a chemical biography of dioxins. The common g...
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Exfoliation of hexagonal boron nitride into atomically thin nanosheets
Graphic showing the exfoliation of hexagonal boron nitride into atomically thin nanosheets aided by surfactants (aka soap), a process refined by chemists at Rice University. [Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant CHE 1807737.] Learn more in the Rice University news ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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NIH Rural Health Seminar
The NIH Rural Health Special Interest Group works to raise awareness of rural health issues and improve biomedical, behavioral/social science, intervention and implementation research aimed at improving disease prevention, self-management, and care delivery across the care continuum. Our goal is to advance our understanding of rural health disparities and stimulate research to identify multi-level, evidence-based solutions to improve rural health outcomes. We connect translational, clinical, and community-based researchers from diverse disciplines throughout the NIH, to research communities, and decision makers. Among rese...
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CC Grand Rounds; John Doppman Memorial Lecture for Imaging Sciences: Total-Body PET: Physics, Chemistry, and Math Meet Cancer Biology
For more information go tohttps://cc.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 10/27/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Special X-ray colors resonate with bonds in molecules
-- methyl is pictured in this illustration -- enabling scientists to selectively probe chemically distinct parts of micelle nanocarriers. [Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DMR 1626566 and OIA 1430364.] Learn ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Blood Stem Cell Clonality and the Niche
Speaker Leonard Zon, M.D., is HHMI Investigator; Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital. The Zon laboratory aims to dissect how assaults to the hematopoietic system cause severe diseases such as leukemias, lymphomas, and anemias. They investigate hematopoietic development and disease using chemical screens, genetic screens, and analysis of novel transgenic lines in zebrafish.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/walsAir date: 11/17/2021 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

A Vision Engaging Pharmacokinetic Strategies to Treat Substance Abuse Disorders and Overdose
Speaker Kim Janda, Ph.D., is Ely R. Callaway Jr. Professor of Chemistry Professor; Director, Worm Institute for Research& Medicine; Skaggs Scholar, The Skaggs Institute For Chemical Biology Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research. Janda's work encompasses the following areas: the development of methods for the detection of and protection against chemical/biological warfare agents, the preparation of combinatorial chemical libraries, the design/synthesis and evaluation of catalytic antibodies and enzyme inhibitors, solid-phase organic synthesis, antibody/peptide phage display libraries, the application of immunopharmacoth...
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New approach to screening drugs using gold nanoparticles
Chemists have devised a multi-channel, signature-based approach to screening drugs using gold nanoparticles with red, green and blue outputs provided by fluorescent proteins. Traditional screening methods currently used are time-consuming and require special equipment. The new approach can ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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The Neurosciences: Degenerative Disorders, Neuroplasticity, & Intersection with Glycoscience Symposium [Day 1]
The NIH Common Fund Glycoscience Program (CF-GSP) in conjunction with NIA and NIDA have organized this " Neurosciences: Degenerative Disorders, Neuroplasticity,& Intersection with Glycoscience " symposium, which will be held virtually on September 8& 9, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT daily. This symposium is being Co-chaired by Dr. Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes, Chair, CF-GSP Tools Group& Professor, Department of Chemistry& Biochemistry, University of Delaware; Dr. Ronald Schnaar, John Jacob Abel Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences& Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins Sch...
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Studying structural and chemical characteristics of cicada wings
Scientists exploring the structural and chemical characteristics of cicada wings found that the chemical compounds that coat their wings also contribute to their ability to repel water and kill microbes. [Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant CBET 1554249.] Learn more ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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The NIH Common Fund Glycoscience Program: Frontiers in Carbohydrate Synthesis Symposium (Day 2)
This report noted the urgent need for broad access to chemically well-defined glycans and pointed out that while “ tremendous advances ” had been made, glycan synthesis remained “ relegated to specialized laboratories capable of producing only small quantities of a given glycan. ” They concluded that “ For glycoscience to advance, significant further progress in glycan synthesis is needed to create widely applicable methodologies that generate both large and small quantities of any glycan on demand. ” This symposium, organized by the Common Fund Glycoscience Program, will explore progress made on the synthesis...
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The NIH Common Fund Glycoscience Program: Frontiers in Carbohydrate Synthesis Symposium
This report noted the urgent need for broad access to chemically well-defined glycans and pointed out that while “ tremendous advances ” had been made, glycan synthesis remained “ relegated to specialized laboratories capable of producing only small quantities of a given glycan. ” They concluded that “ For glycoscience to advance, significant further progress in glycan synthesis is needed to create widely applicable methodologies that generate both large and small quantities of any glycan on demand. ” This symposium, organized by the Common Fund Glycoscience Program, will explore progress made on the synthesis...
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A chemist who is zooming in on microbes in the human body to understand their influence on human...
A chemist who is zooming in on microbes in the human body to understand their influence on human lives and an engineer who looks to animals to build better wind turbines and other technology have earned this year’s prestigious NSF Alan T. Waterman award. Emily Balskus, a Harvard University chemist, ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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