Creative Minds: Engineering Targeted Breast Cancer Treatments
Debra Auguste A few years ago, Debra Auguste, a chemical engineer then at Harvard University, was examining the statistics on breast cancer: the second most common cancer in women in the U.S. after...
View ArticleSnapshots of Life: Wild Outcome from Knocking Out Mobility Proteins
Credit: Praveen Suraneni and Rong Li, Stowers Institute for Medical Research When biologists disabled proteins critical for cell movement, the result was dramatic. The membrane, normally a smooth...
View ArticleCancer Metastasis: Trying to Catch the Culprits Earlier
Caption: Scaffold of a cancer cell-attracting implant as seen by scanning electron microscopy. Credit: Laboratory of Lonnie Shea For many people diagnosed with cancer localized to the breast, prostate,...
View ArticleLabTV: Curious about Pancreatic Cancer
Growing up in Blacksburg, VA, Lindsey Brinton was constantly asking her parents how everything worked. She took this expansive natural curiosity with her to the University of Virginia, where she...
View ArticleCool Videos: Spying on Cancer Cell Invasion
If you’re a fan of the Mission: Impossible spy thrillers, you might think that secret agent Ethan Hunt has done it all. But here’s a potentially life-saving mission that his force has yet to...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....