Malignant melanoma cells depend on the amino acid leucine, according to recent research by JCC fellow Roberto Zoncu published in the May 2011 issue of Cancer Cell. Zoncu and his coauthors found that melanoma cells […]
Embryonic stem cells have the potential to become just about any cell in an organismor, under the right conditions, a whole organism in and of itself. But what about cells that have already differentiated? Some […]
At first, nothing about the blue, green, and black microscopy image appears remarkable, but upon closer inspection, something emergessomething that hints at a much bigger story. It wasnt what we were looking for, says JCC […]
Continuing the research path he began as a post-doc in Argiris Efstratiadiss lab at Columbia University, former JCCF Fellow Apostolos Klinakis says modeling breast cancer in mice takes real patience. If you have an idea and […]
What appeals most to former JCCF Fellow Jennifer Schmidt about academic science are the many facets of the work, especially teaching and having the intellectual freedom to explore different questions. While continuing the genomic imprinting […]