Nobel Prize for place cells + grid cells
Connection to neuroscience research performed at Yerkes
Congrats to the telomere/ribosome Nobelists
Congratulations to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine. The award is for their work on telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that shorten with every cell division and need specialized enzymes to be replenished.
Fragile X: $8 million NIH grant supports next-generation neuroscience
Fragile X research represents a doorway to a better understanding of both autism, and learning and memory. Recent clinical trials have been unsuccessful, highlighting limitations of current mouse models.
Super-cold technique = hot way to see enzyme structure
In the last decade, a revolution has been taking place in structural biology, the field in which scientists produce detailed maps of how enzymes and other machines in the cell work. That revolution is being driven by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM for short), which is superseding X-ray crystallography as the main data-production technique and earned a […]
Targeting metastasis through metabolism
Research from Adam Marcus’ and Mala Shanmugam’s labs was published Tuesday in Nature Communications – months after we wrote an article for Winship Cancer Institute’s magazine about it. So here it is again! At your last visit to the dentist, you may have been given a mouth rinse with the antiseptic chlorhexidine. Available over the […]
Circadian rhythms go both ways: in and from retina
Removal of Bmal1 accelerates the deterioration of vision that comes with aging
Mini-monsters of cardiac regeneration
Jinhu Wang’s lab is not producing giant monsters. They are making fish with fluorescent hearts. Lots of cool videos!
Toe in the water for Emory cryo-EM structures
Congratulations to Christine Dunham and colleagues in the Department of Biochemistry for their first cryo-electron microscopy paper, recently published in the journal Structure.
Long-lasting blood vessel repair in animals via stem cells
When iPS-derived endothelial cells are surrounded by a supportive gel and implanted into mice with damaged blood vessels, they become part of the animals’ blood vessels, surviving for more than 10 months.
Direct reprogramming into endothelial cells
Reprogrammed endothelial cells form vessel-like tubular structures in culture