My cell biology course freshman year, Bio 15a at Harvard College, was taught entirely from scientific papers.
Three such centres have already been initiated by the government, in advanced manufacturing, cell biology and offshore renewables.
Moon also roped in his longtime collaborator, Philip Beachy, of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
If incorporated into a living cell, the stored DNA data might be changed or erased by the normal process of cell biology.
Professor of biological chemistry and developmental and cell biology, and co-director of the Center, Peter Donovan, feels the research could have massive benefits.
Indeed, a group of Harvard scientists will also publish a paper identifying presenilin 1 as gamma secretase in the July issue of Nature Cell Biology.
Her treatment was painful and ultimately unsuccessful, but the cells the doctors kept from her cancer became the nidus for a revolution in cell biology and research.
Civin, director of the University of Maryland's stem-cell biology center.
Dr. Gershon, professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia, has been studying how the gut controls its behavior and that of other organs by investigating the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Cell biology researcher Michael Davidson stumbled upon this little-known trend a decade ago, when he discovered a microscopic etching of Waldo (of Where's Waldo fame) while photographing a Hewlett-Packard chip.
Despite his influence not only on sculpture, but on engineering and cell biology, and despite some well-recognized pieces--the spindly, 60-foot "Needle Tower" at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.
Professor Harry Moore, of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, UK, said there were a number of key differences between mice and human testes cells.
D. in molecular and cell biology from Rockefeller University.
In 1995, the late Richard C Strohman, then emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote of the impossibility of Darwinian biology in explaining human aging and disease.
Perlmutter and his wife Laura have endowed a cell biology professorship in their names at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, part of New York University's Langone Medical Center, where Laura is a trustee.
The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.
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People who work with HeLa cells understand that they are a very odd cell line, and conclusions about human cell biology have to be taken with a huge grain of salt if they are observed in these cells.
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Professor Ian MacKenzie, a researcher in stem cell biology from the Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, said that it was still likely that stem cells played a significant role in the development of cancer.
Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
Similarly, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, a professor of radiation oncology and cell biology at NYU and her team lost mouse populations involved in studies of how radiation exposure increases cancer risk as well as how radiation can be targeted to treat tumors.
Dr Lorenz Studer, head of the Stem Cell and Tumor Biology Laboratory at the centre, and the lead researcher on the study, told BBC News Online that the study was "proof of principle" that cloned embryonic stem cells could be reliably transformed into a variety of useful cell types.
That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world-a massive collaborative undertaking by hundreds of experts around the globe.
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Its purpose is to provide an exploration of the issues arising from current research in biology, particularly stem cell research.
The authors of the PLoS Biology report claimed that iPS cell lines can create live, iPS derived mice that survive into adulthood.
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Prior to venturing into the financial world, Mr. Wolfe published cutting-edge AIDS-immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical-immunology journals.
Using synthetic biology, the team altered the bacteria's cell mechanisms so that the sugar was converted to synthetic fuel molecules instead.
"The poor secretary was being quizzed about the scientific details of those 64 stem cell lines, " says Douglas Melton , chair of molecular biology at Harvard, who also testified yesterday.
The citation for his knighthood credits Prof Wilmut with "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique which underpins the science of stem cell technology.
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