Epigenomics
- Epigenome effort makes its mark
October 6, 2010
Major release of maps charting non-genetic modifications goes beyond DNA in a bid to beat complex human disease.
Global Health
NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (EIA)
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
- At Last, A Living Model for an Important Body Channel
November 11, 2010
Ion channels provide a way for key molecules to cross into cells, are the means for many swift physical reactions and regulate the movement of fluid across internal cavities in our bodies.
- Scientists Trick Bacteria with Small Molecules
October 7, 2010
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.
- Binding Site Broadens Prospects For Prostate-Cancer Drugs
September 6, 2010
Scientists have found a new binding site in prostate-specific membrane antigen, a cancer-cell-surface receptor.
- University of Pennsylvania-Led Study Identifies New Genetic Risk Factor for Lou Gehrig’s Disease
August 25, 2010
An international study led by biologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania has identified a new genetic risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- MIT creates technology for high-speed study of zebrafish larvae
July 18, 2010
One of the most commonly studied laboratory animals is the zebrafish — a tiny fish with transparent embryos, or larvae, whose internal organs can be easily seen as they develop.
- Common apnea questionnaire needs customization for pregnant moms
May 6, 2010
The Berlin questionnaire, a common tool for identifying obstructive sleep apnea, does not accurately identify pregnant women whose breathing is intermittently interrupted or stopped (a condition called apnea) during sleep, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
- The Pre-History of Life: elegantly simple organizing principles seen in ribosomes
April 12, 2010
With few exceptions, all known forms of life on our planet rely on the same genetic code to specify the amino acid composition of proteins. Although different hypotheses abound, just how individual amino acids were assigned to specific three-letter combinations or codons during the evolution of the genetic code is still subject to speculation.
- Researchers find clues to TB drug resistance
March 30, 2010
Two new tuberculosis studies by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers provide good news and bad news about the bacterium that infects nearly a third of the world’s population and a disease that kills nearly 2 million people each year.
- MIT neuroengineers silence brain cells with multiple colors of light
January 6, 2010
Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light.
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
- Uncovering the neurobiological basis of general anesthesia
December 29, 2010
Review article delineates similarities with and differences from sleep and coma.
- Process Leading to Protein Diversity in Cells Important for Proper Neuron Firing
November 17, 2010
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have documented a novel form of splicing in the cytoplasm of a nerve cell, which dictates a special form of a potassium channel protein in the outer membrane.
- Scientists find signals that make cell nucleus blow up like a balloon
October 14, 2010
Size matters when it comes to the nucleus of a cell, and now scientists have discovered the signals that control how big the nucleus gets.
- MIT researchers develop a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells
October 7, 2010
By creating a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells, researchers affiliated with MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the MIT Department of Chemistry are helping elucidate molecular mechanisms of synapse formation.
- Repeated antibiotic use alters gut's composition of beneficial microbes, study shows
September 13, 2010
Repeated use of an antibiotic that is considered generally benign, because users seldom incur obvious side effects, induces cumulative and persistent changes in the composition of the beneficial microbial species inhabiting the human gut, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.
- Delicate touch – New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells
August 12, 2010
Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have fashioned nanowires into a new type of V-shaped transistor small enough to be used for sensitive probing of the interior of cells.
- Small molecule boosts production of brain cells, protects new cells from dying, UT Southwestern researchers find
July 8, 2010
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found a compound that preserves newly created brain cells and boosts learning and memory in an animal study.
- Map of Herpes Virus Protein Suggests a New Drug Therapy
July 6, 2010
The mechanism by which a herpes virus invades cells has remained a mystery to scientists seeking to thwart this family of viruses.
- Same types of cell respond differently to stimulus, study shows
June 27, 2010
Using new technology that allows scientists to monitor how individual cells react in the complex system of cell signaling, Stanford University researchers have uncovered a much larger spectrum of differences between each cell than ever seen before.
- Penn Researchers Add Genetic Data to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History
May 26, 2010
Genetic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from which all human activity emerged.
- New insights into the mystery of natural HIV immunity
May 6, 2010
A new finding from the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard may have implications for designing an effective AIDS vaccine.
- Scientists Make Fundamental Discovery about How Gene Expression Functions in Bacteria
April 22, 2010
Finding Could Pave the Way for New Targets for Antimicrobial Therapy.
- Stanford advances vastly expand versatility of optogenetics brain-research technique
March 18, 2010
Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions in small animals such as rats.
- Genes, Environment, or Chance?
February 18, 2010
Biologists attribute variations among individual organisms to differences in genes or environment, or both. But a new study of nematode worms with identical genes, raised in identical environments, has revealed another factor: chance.
- BME Researchers Discover How Superbugs Become Resistant to Antibiotics
February 11, 2010
Many people with bacterial infections stop taking antibiotics when their symptoms improve, thereby allowing the hardy bacteria that survive to multiply and potentially mount a more powerful defense against future applications of the same drug.
- Columbia Researchers Identify Regional Clusters of Autism Cases in California
February 2, 2010
A Columbia study has determined there are certain geographical areas in California where newborns are more likely to develop autism.
- Scripps Research scientists create new way to screen libraries of 10 million or more compounds
February 1, 2010
The search for new drug compounds is probably worse than looking for a needle in a haystack because scientists are limited in the size of the haystacks they can rummage through.
- University of Wisconsin Researchers Explore Assessments of Consciousness
January 27, 2010
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
- Needling Molecules
January 12, 2010
A simple method may solve the problem of getting stuff into cells.
Molecular Libraries and Imaging
Structural Biology
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