7 years ago
The 黑料网 labs of Brian Kuhlman, PhD, and Aravinda de Silva, PhD, found that key components of a potentially potent vaccine fall apart due to body temperature, leaving us susceptible to severe infection.
7 years ago
For the first time, 黑料网 scientists led by Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar analyzed whole-genome DNA repair in an animal over 24 hours to find which genes were repaired, where exactly, and when, laying the groundwork for a more precise use of anti-cancer drugs.
7 years ago
Vishwa Mohan and Sarah Wade published a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, 2018, 1-15, “Temporal Regulation of Dendritic Spines Through NrCAM-Semaphorin3F Receptor 聽Signaling in Developing Cortical Pyramidal Neurons.” Vishwa Mohan, Chelsea S. Sullivan, Jiami Guo, Sarah D. Wade, Samarpan Majumder, Amit Agarwal, Eva S. Anton, Brenda S. Temple, and Patricia F. Maness. A new paper …
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The lab of Aziz Sancar, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, reveals the first-ever repair map of an entire multicellular organism to illuminate the inner workings of the plant kingdom鈥檚 highly efficient DNA repair system special thanks to the research of Onur Oztas, PhD, Christopher Selby, PhD, Ogun Adebali, PhD.
7 years ago
黑料网 scientists led by Nikolay Dokholyan, Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, add to evidence that small aggregates of SOD1 protein are the brain-cell killing culprits in ALS, but the formation of larger, more visible, and fibril-like aggregates of the same protein may protect brain cells.
7 years ago
Congratulations to Nate Wesley who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
7 years ago
Congratulations to Brian Strahl, Professor & Vice-Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, for being selected to receive an R35 Maximizing Investigators鈥� Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health.
7 years ago
Gwen Sancar is far from idle, she and her husband, Aziz Sancar, M.D. Ph.D., have established a home for Turkish students on Franklin Street and are raising money for a larger Turkish cultural center, also on Franklin Street.
7 years ago
黑料网 provides opportunities to community members to attend various lectures at 黑料网. Carolyn Clabo was mentioned in the Daily Tarheel after attending the 2018 Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture.
7 years ago
The winner of the 2017 Journal of Cell Science (JCS) Prize is Seth Zimmerman for his paper entitled 鈥楥ells lay their own tracks 鈥� optogenetic Cdc42 activation stimulates fibronectin deposition supporting directed migration鈥� (Zimmerman et al., 2017). Seth received his PhD in 2017. 聽He was a joint student in Kuhlman lab and the Bear lab …
7 years ago
In the journal Cell Chemical Biology, researchers led by Biochemistry and Biophysics Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Quantitative Proteomics Center for Disease Marker Discovery, Xian Chen, PhD, report on potential prognostic tool that could be used to identify high-risk patients within particular subtypes of breast cancer.
7 years ago
In the journal Nature, Greg Wang, PhD, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cell biology Program, and colleagues reported findings about the structure and function of the DNMT3A enzyme complex, which helps control gene expression.
