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Diabetes and Calcineurin “The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery,” states the American Diabetes Association (ADA) on its website. However, Stanford Medical School Professors Seung Kim and Gerald Crabtree, along with ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Chelsea Young | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Spying on the Grim Reaper Apoptosis is a normal physiological process of programmed cell death or “cell suicide” that eliminates damaged or stressed cells. Errors in apoptosis are involved in approximately 70% of human diseases ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Alicia B. Berger | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Just What the Doctor Ordered Research findings from a bioengineer’s lab bench have an exciting new application: wound healing. In collaboration with the Department of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Jennifer Cochran, ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Elizabeth Burstein | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Controlling Metastatic Cancer The majority of cancer deaths occur when cancer cells spread from a localized tumor to other parts of the body during a process called metastasis. Investigations into the mechanisms of ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Jennifer Huang | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Mitochondrial Disease Two billion years ago, a hungry protoeukaryote engulfed an aerobic bacterium, but instead of digesting it, the protoeukaryote formed a symbiotic relationship with its helpful snack, feeding o the energy ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Julie Boiko | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
A New Method to Monitor Proteins in vivo Bioluminescent imaging is one of the most important tools available to scientists trying to understand how cells and proteins function. This technique has been revolutionized following a new discovery by ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Adrienne Sussman | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Pitx1 Mutations Manatees gently paddling on the surface of warm waters have revealed a startling connection with fish and mice. These aquatic herbivores are mammals that evolved from four-legged ancestors into legless ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Erika Williams | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
The Invisible Polluter The next time you reach for that bottle of Advil or that cup of coffee as you try to fend off an on-setting headache and to gain a few more ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Misha Tran | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
The Protein Switch Recent advances made at Stanford University’s Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Systems Biology will now allow scientists to control the function of a protein more rapidly through the administration ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Quyna Anh Nguyen | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
The Cost of TB Resistance For most people, coughing and sneezing may rarely be acknowledged beyond a perfunctory “bless you”, but these symptoms are very serious for patients suffering from tuberculosis. Often thought of as ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Kathleen Jia | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
The Ticking of Internal Clocks Many organisms have circadian rhythms, internal clocks that are closely linked to the light-dark cycle of a day. Generally, if an organism’s internal clock is unsynchronized, it continues to live ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Michelle Meyer and Nishma Sachedina | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
Visible Evolution Imagine finding components of a human eye in a worm. What would this tell us about eye evolution? Opponents of natural selection have frequently claimed the eye is too complex ... Volume 5, Issue 2 | Stephanie Le | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Read More |
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