Researchers have detected viral proteins — and something that looks suspiciously like infectious viral particles — in early human embryos. Is that good, bad or both?
Ed Grow and Joanna Wysocka have found that these viral proteins are well-placed to manipulate some of the earliest steps in our development by affecting gene expression and even possibly protecting the embryo’s cells from further viral infection.
Read More »Congratulations to CSB professor Daniel Jarosz! He has been awarded a Packard fellowship in Science and Engineering.
Read More »Congratulations to the following students on receiving a Mansour Prize:
Poster Prize – 1st place: Zach Harvey and Bo Gu
Paper Prize – 1st place: Sara Prescott
Talk Prize – 1st place: Sukrit Silas
Read Carl Zimmer’s review in the New York Times: Ancient Viruses, Once Foes, May Now Serve as Friends on CSB professor Joanna Wysocka, senior author and graduate student Edward Grow, lead author’s paper “Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells” published online in Nature on April 20, 2015.
Read More »CSB Professor Karlene Cimprich’s paper “Transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair factors promote R-loop-induced genome instability” was recently recommended by the Faculty of 1000.
Read More »Read the latest review on the SPARK founders, CSB professors Daria Mochly-Rosen and Kevin Grimes’s publication A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia: the SPARK Approach in the current edition of Nature Chemical Biology: Translational research: Drug Discovery from the Inside by Derek Lowe.
Read More »The recent Science publication from the lab of Mary Teruel, “Controlling low rates of cell differentiation through noise and ultra-high feedback”, has been selected as a Science Editors’ Choice and has been featured in SCOPE, the Stanford School of Medicine online Blog.
Read More »CSB Professor Dan Jarosz has just been named one of fifteen researchers granted the Searle Scholar Award for his work on “Protein Folding: A Capacitor of Evolutionary Change, Disease, and Development.” Each year, the Scientific Advisory Board reviews applications from all over the country to discover young, early career scientific investigators that have a strong future in the research community and will make great advancements.
Read More »CSB Senior Research Scientist, Marie-Helene Disatnik, Ph.D., has had her work on the preservation of motochondrial function featured by the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. According to her research, inhibiting mitochondrial fragmentation by selectively inhibiting the interaction between the proteins Drp1 and Fis1 may reduce ischemic tissue damage.
Read More »Dr. Kim Bonger, working with her colleagues in the Chen and Wandless labs, developed a new method to regulate the stability of specific proteins using non-toxic blue light.
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