Jennifer Loros Receives B.O. Dodge Award from Neurospora Research Community
Jennifer Loros, PhD, a professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and of Molecular and Systems Biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has received the 2023 B.O. Dodge Award from the Neurospora research community. (Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School)
Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School - October 31, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Timothy Dean Tags: News Jennifer Loros Molecular and Systems Biology Source Type: news
U.S. urges DNA synthesis firms to ramp up screening for biosecurity threats
Worried that bioterrorists will take advantage of the growing ease of creating risky pathogens in the lab, federal officials are beefing up guidelines for companies that sell nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. The recommendations, released earlier this month, update the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS’s) 13-year-old guidance for screening orders to cover more forms of DNA and RNA, as well as new desktop devices for printing these molecular blueprints. Yet the guidelines will remain voluntary under HHS’s plan, disappointing some biosecurity experts.
Biologists seeking to synthesize genes comm...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
More than red blood cells depend on hemoglobin, surprising study of cartilage reveals
Blood is red because it’s brimming with the oxygen-toting protein hemoglobin, but scientists have long wondered whether cells outside of the bloodstream depend on this protein as well. Now, a team of researchers from China has demonstrated that cartilage-making cells called chondrocytes manufacture and use hemoglobin, perhaps to help them survive in cartilage’s oxygen-poor environment.
The results surprised bone researchers, but they give the study high marks. The authors “provide solid and convincing evidence that chondrocytes can produce hemoglobin and that it has a physiological role,” says bone developmen...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 13, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for Seminal Work in Immunology and Cell Biology
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, an esteemed immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in recognition of her pioneering contributions to the fields of immunology and cell biology. Dr. Merad was elected for her... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
C. elegans community at the GSA Allied Genetics Conference
We are excited to work with the Genetics Society of America to bring the worm community into the Allied Genetics Meeting and would like to announce that abstract submission is open. This will be a great opportunity for us to come together in C. elegans sessions to hear the latest on cell biology, small RNAs, aging, neurobiology, and all of our other favorite topics. We have some great keynote speakers, worm games, and lots of talks from the abstracts, and the best poster prize winners will get registration/domestic travel to the C. elegans appropriate topic meeting. Also, check out this link for info on undergraduate tr...
Source: WormBase - October 9, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community external website news meetings TAGC TAGC24 Source Type: news
Immunity-enhancing cocktail protects mice against multiple hospital germs
Some people in hospital die not from the illness or accident that got them admitted but from germs they catch once there. In the United States alone, there are hundreds of thousands of hospital-acquired infections each year, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. Seeking to lower this toll, researchers have now come up with an
immune-boosting cocktail that increases the survival
of mice exposed to the microbes responsible.
The three-compound formulation, which the researchers unusually refer to as a vaccine, provided up to 28 days of protection from the notorious hospital bacterium
Pseudomonas aerugin...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Science hasn ’t gone ‘woke’ – the only people meddling with it are the Tories | Philip Ball
Michelle Donelan ’s plan to “depoliticise” science with new guidelines on sex and gender research is a chilling moveThe science secretary, Michelle Donelan, told the Conservative party conference this week that the Tories are “depoliticising science”. Or as a Conservative partyannouncement later put it, in case you didn ’t get the culture-war reference, they are “kicking woke ideology out of science”, thereby “safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness”.Scientists do not seem too delighted to be defended in this manner. “As a scientist, I ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Philip Ball Tags: Conservative conference 2023 Gender Conservatives Science Politics UK news Sexuality Source Type: news
Birmingham launches new Dental and Biomaterials Testing Service
September 18, 2023: University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of the Birmingham Dental and Biomaterials Testing Service (BiMaTs), to provide consultancy and a comprehensive materials testing service for dental and biomaterial manufacturers.
BiMaTs is co-founded by internationally recognised academic researchers Professor Josette Camilleri and Professor Will Palin. The consultancy element will be key to BiMaTs, which will offer a range of services to assess the mechanical and physical properties of materials and the biological properties of material-tissue interfaces, including developing protocols that ar...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - September 18, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Labroots Announces Agenda for its 7th Annual Cell Biology Virtual Event Series on September 20, 2023
This one-day event unveils featured advances in multiple areas of cell biology by leading experts YORBA LINDA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Labroots, the leading scientific social networking website offering premier, interactive virtual and hybrid events and webinars,... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - September 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TDS Source Type: news
Durham startup raises $6.5M to expand commercial footprint
A Durham company that develops technology supporting research into cell biology is looking to expand its revenue sources in the U.S. and abroad. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 30, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news
‘Magic’ Mushrooms Set Forest Aglow in Mesmerizing Display – Metro
Read article - Jay Dunlap, a professor of molecular and systems biology and of biochemistry and cell biology, is featured in an article about a rush of bioluminescent mushrooms carpeting the forest floor in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in northeastern Goa, India. “It looks like the mushroom is making its own light, and it’s quite magical,” Dunlap said. (Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School)
Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School - August 17, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Geisel Communications Tags: News Source Type: news
Soni Lacefield Named a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology
Soni Lacefield, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Geisel, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology. (Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School)
Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School - August 17, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Timothy Dean Tags: News American Society for Cell Biology Soni Lacefield Source Type: news
Extra chromosomes —long a mystery in tumors—may help them grow
Cancer cells are sloppy with their DNA, often gaining entire chromosomes as they proliferate. Now, researchers have found that this extra DNA can rev up the cells' growth and stymie one of the body's main anticancer defenses. This chromosomal hoarding may leave some tumors susceptible to certain drugs, however, opening the possibility of tailored treatments.
The study, in which researchers used gene editing to compare cells with and without extra chromosomes, "is important, it's novel, and it was carried out in a very elegant way," says cell biologist Uri Ben-David of Tel Aviv University, who wasn't connected to the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Biologists create detailed lab replicas of early human embryos
Biologists trying to create laboratory models of the early growth of a human embryo have taken a major step forward. In preprints posted online on Thursday and Friday, four research teams reported using various kinds of human stem cells, some genetically modified, to create ersatz embryos that closely resemble real embryos that are up to 14 days old, replicating a period in human development that is very difficult to study.
The rush of papers was triggered when the leader of one group, developmental biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, briefly described her team’s results at the International Society for Stem Cell R...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Roche awarded WHO prequalification for the cobas ® HPV test, increasing access to cervical cancer screening tools in low and lower-middle income countries
Every year, over 600,000 women worldwideare diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 340,000 die from this preventable disease, caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). Nine out of 10 women who die from cervical cancer live in low- and lower-middle income countries (LMICs).1WHO prequalification enables LMICs to use thecobas® HPV test in their national cervical cancer elimination programs, increasing access to the patients who need it most.Establishing screening programs helps prevent and detect cervical cancer, which is especially important in areas with limited healthcare resources where patientsare often diag...
Source: Roche Investor Update - June 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
