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3D printing used to control stem cell differentiation   Scientists from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at Rockefeller University are using principles from geometry to control the patterns through which [human embryonic stem cells] develop.
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How spread of breast cancer could be stopped "Professor Sohail Tavazoie, who led the research, said: ‘If we learn more about how this regulation works, we may in the future be able to generate drugs that prevent this protein from triggering metastatic disease.’"
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Scientists Join the World of Crowdfunding   “'But science has yet to gain Veronica Mars status,' notes Jeanne Garbarino, director of science outreach at Rockefeller University in New York, who has used crowdfunding and informally advised others. Instead, scientific projects tend to be far more ...
Nature online: July 9, 2014
Nature online: July 9, 2014 Metastasis-suppressor transcript destabilization through TARBP2 binding of mRNA hairpins | Newswire Hani Goodarzi, Steven Zhang, Colin G. Buss, Lisa Fish, Saeed Tavazoie and Sohail F. Tavazoie
Genetically driven gut feelings help female flies choose a mate
Even among flies, mating is a complicated ritual. Their elaborate, and entirely innate, courtship dance combines multiple motor skills with advanced sensory cues. Now, researchers at Rockefeller University have determined that the Abdominal-B (Abd-B) gene, previously known as the gene that sculpt...
Impaired TrkB Receptor Signaling Underlies Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease
Neuron 83(1):178-88 Impaired TrkB Receptor Signaling Underlies Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease Joshua L. Plotkin, Michelle Day, Jamys D. Peterson, Zhong Xie, Geraldine J. Kress, Igor Rafalovich, Jyothisri Kondapalli, Tracy S. Gertler, Marc Flajolet, Paul Greengard, Mihaela Sta...
Using geometry, researchers coax human embryonic stem cells to organize themselves
About seven days after conception, something remarkable occurs in the clump of cells that will eventually become a new human being. They start to specialize. They take on characteristics that begin to hint at their ultimate fate as part of the skin, brain, muscle or any of the roughly 200 cell ty...
Potential Alzheimer’s drug prevents abnormal blood clots in the brain
Without a steady supply of blood, neurons can’t work. That’s why one of the culprits behind Alzheimer’s disease is believed to be the persistent blood clots that often form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, contributing to the condition’s hallmark memory loss, confusion and cognitive ...
Sequencing efforts miss DNA crucial to bacteria’s disease causing power
Genomic sequencing is supposed to reveal the entire genetic makeup of an organism. For infectious disease specialists, the technology can be used to analyze a disease-causing bacterium to determine how much harm it is capable of causing and whether or not it will be resistant to antibiotics. But ...
Jean-Laurent Casanova to receive 2014 Robert Koch Award
Jean-Laurent Casanova, head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded the 2014 Robert Koch Award from the Berlin, Germany based Robert Koch Foundation. Casanova shares the prize with Alain Fischer from the Collège de France and Imagine Institute and th...
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