Posts Tagged ‘NIEHS’
RTP Weekahead 2/8
Sunday, February 7, 2010, 5:24 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Feb. 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
Mitochondrion whisperer visits NIEHS
Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 11:33 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentIn search of new medicines, researchers have gone inside the cell to study mitochondria, tiny power plants that are key to cellular life and death, and their role in causing disease.
Malfunctioning mitochondria have been linked to cancer, immune defects, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, sterility and deafness. North Carolina scientists have been among those on the forefront of mitochondrial research, including a group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park.
Gerald Shadel
On Tuesday, the NIEHS group hosted Gerald Shadel, a Yale University biochemist who is sort of a mitochondrion whisperer. His lab at Yale’s school of medicine tries to understand how mitochondria tell cells what to do and what happens when the communication breaks down. Read more…
RTP Weekahead 2/1
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 10:33 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Feb. 1 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Weekahead 1/25
Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:09 am No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Jan. 25 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Weekahead 1/18
Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:07 am No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Jan. 18 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Weekahead 1/11
Monday, January 11, 2010, 12:10 am No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Jan. 11 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
RTP Weekahead 1/4
Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:58 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Dec. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
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Digging for the roots of diabetes
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:58 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvery year, the number of Americans with diabetes rises by about 1 million and genetic risk factors alone can be blamed for only a small portion of the cases. The 30 to 35 known diabetes genes, as researchers have dubbed them, account for only about 10 percent of the risk that a brother or sister of a diabetic will also develop the disease.
Dr. Ronald Kahn
To better understand the other 90 percent, said Dr. Ronald Kahn, a Harvard University medical professor and vice chairman of the Joslin Diabetes Center, “we have to look at the environment.” Read more…
RTP Weekahead 11/30
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 4:17 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Dec. 30 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
RTP Weekahead 10/12
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 5:23 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Oct. 12 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
