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  • A patient prepares to undergo radiation therapy. Credit: National Cancer Institute
    More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed at diseased tissue to kill cancer cells. But due to a phenomenon known as radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE), in which irradiated cells leak
  • The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing research achievements. Election to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the nation鈥檚 most prestigious scientific honors.聽 Among the newly elected members, four are MCDB alumni.
  • Image of authors Min Han and Hongyun Tang
    Proper nutrition can unleash amazing powers, moms have always assured us, frequently citing Popeye the Sailor Man as evidence. Now, two 天美传媒 scientists have confirmed just how potent some nutrients can be.

    In findings published today in the journal Cell, postdoctoral fellow Hongyun Tang and Professor Min Han, both of 天美传媒 Boulder鈥檚 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, detail how fat levels in a tiny soil-dwelling roundworm (C. elegans) can tip the balance between whether the worm makes eggs or sperm.

    Although the researchers discovered this phenomenon in worms, the research could have implications for future studies into human fertility and reproductive development.
  • Tom Perkins working on a lab instrument.
    Tom Perkins and JILA team unfold proteins with precise new instrumentation
  • Students in lab.
    Undergraduate students at the University of Colorado will soon enjoy a new means of conducting scientific laboratory research, as 天美传媒 Boulder is one of 11 U.S. institutions to receive a 2017 Beckman Scholars Program Award.
  • Imaginal Disk
    Two studies publishing on the 1st September in Open Access journal PLOS Biology identify overlapping groups of cells in the Drosophila larva that have unique properties. In one case, the cells are resistant to irradiation or drug-induced cell death and capable of moving to areas of damaged tissue where they adopt a new fate and initiate regeneration. The second study examines cells from the same location and reports that, upon inactivation of a tumor suppressor gene, these cells but not others elsewhere in the same tissue take a first step towards becoming aggressive tumors. Both sets of authors discuss potential implications for human tumors.
  • Ding Xue
    When it comes to mitochondrial inheritance, maternal genes rule the day at the expense of paternal ones. But why?A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by 天美传媒 researchers, sheds new
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    A 天美传媒 research team, in collaboration with a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has discovered how skin stem cells know when to stop dividing. The findings, published as the cover story 
  • Participants in a modern cell鈥恇iology 鈥榖oot camp鈥 in Ghana hone their skills in science, technology, and lab work. Photo courtesy of Dick Macintosh.
    Last month, Dick McIntosh, distinguished professor (emeritus), and Joy Power (鈥88 BIO), an alumna and lab coordinator, of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department at the 天美传媒, traveled to the University
  • Glenn Award for Research
    天美传媒-Boulder Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Bradley Olwin, has been selected as one of 29 U.S. scientists to receive the 2015 Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. The award, from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, comes with a $60,000 grant to support Olwin鈥檚 research on how the body repairs and regenerates skeletal muscle after injury, in the face of disease, and during the normal aging process.
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