Tag: Cell and Developmental Biology
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Northwestern Receives $17 Million Grant for HIV Prevention Research
Northwestern Medicine scientists will lead an interdisciplinary project funded by the National Institutes of Health to invent, develop and test an implantable drug delivery system to protect high-risk individuals from HIV infection.
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Understanding a Cell Component Integral for Mechanical Stability
Two Northwestern Medicine studies help explain how components of the cytoskeleton called intermediate filaments move and assemble to protect cells.
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Centriole Finding Expands Knowledge of Cancer Cell Biology
A study coauthored by Northwestern Medicine scientists found that normal cells stop proliferating when they lose important intracellular structures called centrioles, but cancer cells continue to multiply.
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Promoting Stem Cells to Repair Neurons in Multiple Sclerosis
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified two drugs that stimulate stem cells in the central nervous system with the potential to repair the protective coating around neurons damaged in multiple sclerosis.
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Student Awarded AOA Fellowship for Research on Inflammation
Prarthana Dalal, a first-year medical student, received a 2015 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, to support her project studying a protein involved in inflammation.
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Protein Protects Organs From Immune Damage
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a previously unknown key regulator of immune response, a protein kinase called Jnk2 that helps maintain cellular homeostasis through a series of physiological processes.
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Stem Cell Biology the Focus for New ALS Lab
Evangelos Kiskinis, PhD, assistant professor in Neurology and Physiology, uses stem cells to study the motor neurons and genes implicated in ALS.
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Vimentin Implicated in Lung Inflammation and Fibrosis
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that a protein called vimentin may help activate an inflammatory response that leads to acute lung injury.
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Protein that Helps Cells Stick Together May Explain Heart Disease Development
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified mechanisms behind desmosomes, important junctions that bind cells together, helping to explain how some skin and heart diseases develop.
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Targeting Growth Factor Improves Skin Cancer Therapies
A Northwestern Medicine study found that standard treatments for metastatic melanoma are not effective against Nodal, a growth factor protein critical for the skin cancer’s development, but also showed that combination therapies incorporating anti-Nodal antibodies are a promising alternative.
