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August 25, 2010
Use the common cold virus to target and disrupt cancer cells?
LA JOLLA, CA—A novel mechanism used by adenovirus to sidestep the cell's suicide program, could go a long way to explain how tumor suppressor genes are silenced in tumor cells and pave the way for a new type of targeted cancer therapy, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the Aug. 26, 2010 issue of Nature.
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August 16, 2010
NIH awards $21 million grant to study early stages of HIV-1 infection
LA JOLLA, CA—A multi-institutional team headed by John Young, Ph.D., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., an associate professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, has been awarded a $21 million Program Project Grant to dissect the early innate immune response to HIV infection using a systems biology approach.
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August 13, 2010
Language as a window into sociability
LA JOLLA, CA—People with Williams syndrome—known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers—process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders—characterized by social withdrawal and isolation—found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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August 10, 2010
Non-Resident Fellows Wurtz and Fink win Gruber Foundation's Prizes in Neuroscience and Genetics
Salk Institute Non-Resident Fellows Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, an NIH distinguished investigator, and Dr. Gerald R. Fink, a professor of genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have been awarded the 2010 Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for their pioneering work in cognitive neuroscience and yeast genetics, respectively.
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July 09, 2010
Salk Colleagues Remember Former Salk Chairman Frederick Rentschler
LA JOLLA, CA—Frederick B. Rentschler, 70, a corporate leader and longtime Salk Trustee who served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, and briefly as Salk Chief Executive Officer, died July 6 in Scottsdale, AZ.
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July 08, 2010
Origins of multicellularity: All in the family
LA JOLLA, CA-One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.
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July 07, 2010
Tickets for Symphony at Salk, featuring the legendary Liza Minnelli, On Sale Now
Multi-award-winning entertainer to share the stage with the San Diego Symphony and Maestro Thomas Wilkins at annual fundraiser for the Salk Institute Aug. 28
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July 01, 2010
Work-life balance: Brain stem cells need their rest, too
LA JOLLA, CA—Stem cells in the brain remain dormant until called upon to divide and make more neurons. However, little has been known about the molecular guards that keep them quiet. Now scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the signal that prevents stem cells from proliferating, protecting the brain against too much cell division and ensuring a pool of neural stem cells that lasts a lifetime.
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LA JOLLA, CA—A $6.5 million gift received today from the Swiss-based Nomis Foundation caps a strong fundraising season for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which raised more than $31 million from foundations and private philanthropists in the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
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June 24, 2010
Connecting the dots: How light receptors get their message across
LA JOLLA, CA—For a plant, light is life. It drives everything from photosynthesis to growth and reproduction. Yet the chain of molecular events that enables light signals to control gene activity and ultimately a plant's architecture had remained in the dark. Now a team of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Duke University have identified the courier that gives the signal to revamp the plant's gene expression pattern after photoreceptors have been activated by light.
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