Caption: The images show the orientation of integrins (yellow and green lines) at the leading edge (red lines) of a migrating white blood cell and within the focal adhesions (magenta lines) of a migrating fibroblast, […]
Hao Wu, assistant professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and former JCC Fellow (2011 -2014), recently won an NIH New Innovator Award. The award grants $1.5 million over five years to pursue to […]
Caption: Wild type human prostate cells from an organoid (a man-made construct that resembles an organ). (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health) Genetic differences in prostate cancer tumors drive the composition of immune […]
In a pair of recent research papers, work by Thomas Schaus contributes to the development of new nanotechnology tools. Schaus was a JCC Fellow from 2011-2014 in Peng Yin’s lab at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute […]
Caption: Being sick changes our behavior. How does that happen, and are these changes in behavior important for helping promote recovery from illness? Dan Littman’s lab has identified neurons in the gut that respond to pathogen-activating immune cells […]