Category: Scientific Advances
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Drug Discovery Screening 100 Times Faster
Milan Mrksich, PhD, professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, has created a tool and a startup company to test biological reactions quickly and cheaply.
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Tissue Regeneration Using Anti-inflammatory Nanomolecules
Northwestern Medicine scientists developed a system using nanomolecules that may protect against the inflammatory reaction that can negatively impact tissue growth, development and function in the bladder.
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A Place for Drug Discovery
Al George, MD, Melds Genetics, Drug Discovery To Personalize Medicine
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Protein Pak2 May be an Essential Regulator in T-cell Development
Hyewon Phee, PhD, assistant professor in Microbiology-Immunology, showed that a lack of the protein Pak2 in immune cells may lead to immunodeficiency in patients.
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New Instrument Tracks Nanoparticles in Cancer Cells
Gayle E. Woloschak, PhD, professor in Radiation Oncology and Radiology, developed a new x-ray microscopy instrument that allows her to track nanoparticles in the nucleus of cancer cells, where they can do the most damage.
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Math Models Show Influence of Macromolecular Crowding
A recently published Northwestern Medicine study uses math models based on the physical interactions within cells to make predictions of how gene transcription might be effected.
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Choices in High School Elevate Lifetime Cancer Risk for LGBT Students
One of more than a dozen connected papers to be published in the American Journal of Public Health, a recent study has shown that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender youths make an increased number of choices that elevate their risk of cancer.
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Enzymes Shown to Protect Mitochondrial DNA from Stress
David Kamp, MD, completed his residency and fellowship at Northwestern, where he now studies a range of lung disorders as well as cellular apoptosis, a process of programmed cell death.
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Exploring the Structural Basis of Kainate Receptors
Theanne Griffith, a fourth year graduate student in the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program, studies the role of kainate receptors in neurons. Last year she was awarded a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association.
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MRI Shows How Learning is an Active Process
Study finds that decisions individuals make during learning greatly influence how well the brain retains information.
