Addiction
Aging
- A tiny molecule that might help extend lifespan
- Cancer drug might also treat progeria
- A link between diet and aging?
- Our genome changes as we age
- A Comeback for the Ages: Lamin?s connection with aging has reinvigorated research
Cancer: Potential treatments
- A caution about chemicals that alter the epigenome
- Killing cancer cells with a sea sponge?
- Cancer drug might also treat progeria
- Discovery of anticancer proteins
- Preventing sun damage with broccoli sprout extract
- Epigenetics and cancer: blocking the spread
- Stopping cancer by blocking telomerase
- Cancer and toenail fungus?
- Biomarkers a strategic approach to early-detection research
Cancer: Learning more about the disease
- Metastasis: Learning more about how cancer cells spread
- Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk
- Linking heart disease and cancer
- Uncontrolled cell growth
- When good cells turn bad: Are stem cells a breeding ground for cancer?
- The hunt for the cell's compass
- Goal: A blood test for colon cancer
- Epigenetics and cancer: Are stem cells the link?
- Shedding light on how lymphomas develop
- A global view of cell movement and metastasis
- Turning off tumor suppressors with RNA
- Down Syndrome may lead to lower risk of colon cancer
- Discovering a controller of cell movement
- Proteins that stop blood vessel growth
- Controlling tissue and organ growth
- Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage
Cardiovascular Disease
- Linking heart disease and cancer
- Proteins that stop blood vessel growth
- Regulating blood pressure--with gas?
- Cholesterol and drug metabolism
Cystic Fibrosis
Diabetes and Obesity
Education: Graduate and medical
- Running in place: Graduate student and postdoc face anxiety as their stints lengthen
- Diversity, by intention
- Of stipends and science
- Good bye and good luck
- New medical school curriculum integrates science and medicine as never before
- Reaching Out
Employment
- Journal fever and the pressure to publish
- Stemming shady science
- Opening the doors of the ivory tower
- Repairing the faculty pipeline
- Luring prospective faculty
- Mr. (or Ms.) PhD Goes to Washington
Epigenetics: Inheritance beyond the genome
- The Epigenetics Center at Johns Hopkins
- Epigenetics may play a role in common diseases
- A caution about chemicals that alter the epigenome
- Epigenetics' new findings on gene regulation spark new studies
- Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk
- Epigenetics and cancer: Blocking the spread
- Epigenetics and cancer: Are stem cells the link?
- Our genomes change as we age
- Deciphering an elephant
Funding Education
Funding Scientific Discovery
- Molecular pathways and networks
- Goal: A blood test for colon cancer
- Journal fever and the pressure to publish
- Diversified portfolios
- Of stipends and science
- Stemming shady science
- Calling all donors
- Money in the meantime
- Do team-based project grants provide the answer during a funding crisis?
- An acute need for more endowed chairs
Genes, Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Using FISH to ID gene parts
- Keeping chromosomes intact
- Solving the structure of a protein that controls genes
- Protecting cells from damaged DNA
- Geography matters in the nucleus
- Scientists out a gene for gout
Hearing and Deafness
- That ringing in your ears...
- A sixth sense and beyond
- Exploring the deep recesses of the inner ear
- Now hear this
HIV
Immune System
Learning and Memory
- How nerve cells learn
- How the brain controls muscle movement
- Going through the motions
- To stay or to go
- How the brain remembers things for more than an hour or two
- For motor neurons: Mother may I?
- What emotional memories are made of
- How memories are stored in the brain
- How memories are formed
- Watching memories form in real time
- Reducing memory to a molecule: A researcher explores the molecular essence of memory
- This is your brain on fatty acids
- Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli
Molecular Biology
- Making proteins
- The complex choreography of protein translation
- Antioxidant controls spinal cord development
- Diving cells "feel" their way out of warp
- Starve a yeast, sweeten its lifespan
- Scientist shines light on molecular signaling
Muscle Wasting Diseases
Treating Neurological Diseases
- Anti-dandruff shampoo ingredient may control siezures
- Antipsychotic drugs: Why they cause weight gain
Pain
Parasitic Diseases
Smell
Stem Cells
- When good cells turn bad: Are stem cells a breeding ground for cancer?
- Regrowing nose nerves
- Making stem cells from developing sperm
Telomeres and Telomerase
- Carol Greider Shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Stopping cancer by blocking telomerase
Technology
- Little green ions
- Need more resolution?
- Bringing up (the protein) baby
- More bang for your microarray buck
- Data dowsers
- Seeing is believing
- All the (microscopic) world's a stage
- Reaping the fruits of research
- RACking up tools
- Core facilities aim to serve while keeping in the black
- A prosthetic arm like no other
- Chemical found in medical devices impairs heart function
Translating Basic Research: From bench to bedside
Vision and Blindness
- Proper blood vessel growth in the eyes
- The cause of light blindness
- How eyes respond to light intensity
- Reducing retinal degeneration
- How color vision came to be
- Enhancing color vision
- A sixth sense and beyond
- Baiting the hook
- Sight gone, but not necessarily lost
- An 'eye catching' vision discovery
- The difference between eye cells
