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Longtime Salk Researcher Marguerite Vogt Dies
La Jolla, CA – Salk scientist Marguerite Vogt, M.D., long regarded as one of science's greatest unsung female researchers, died today. She was 94 years old.
read more >>Longtime Salk Researcher Marguerite Vogt Dies
La Jolla, CA – Salk scientist Marguerite Vogt, M.D., long regarded as one of science's greatest unsung female researchers, died today. She was 94 years old.
read more >>From the corner of the eye: Paying attention to attention
La Jolla, CA – Every kid knows that moms have "eyes in the back of their heads." We are adept at fixing our gaze on one object while independently directing attention to others. Salk Institute neurobiologists are beginning to tease apart the complex brain networks that enable humans and other higher mammals to achieve this feat.
read more >>Doing nature one better: Expanding the genetic code in living mammalian cells
La Jolla, CA – Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a novel strategy to expand the natural repertoire of 20 amino acids in mammalian cells, including neurons, and successfully inserted tailor-made amino acids into proteins in these cells. In a powerful demonstration of the method's versatility, they then used unnatural amino acids to determine the operating mechanism of the "molecular gates" that regulate the movement of potassium ions in and out of nerve cells.
read more >>Doing nature one better: Expanding the genetic code in living mammalian cells
La Jolla, CA – Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a novel strategy to expand the natural repertoire of 20 amino acids in mammalian cells, including neurons, and successfully inserted tailor-made amino acids into proteins in these cells. In a powerful demonstration of the method's versatility, they then used unnatural amino acids to determine the operating mechanism of the "molecular gates" that regulate the movement of potassium ions in and out of nerve cells.
read more >>A possible mechanistic link between stress and the development of Alzheimer tangles
La Jolla, CA – Subjecting mice to repeated emotional stress, the kind we experience in everyday life, may contribute to the accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. While aging is still the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, a number of studies have pointed to stress as a contributing factor.
read more >>Cancer stem cells can go it alone
La Jolla, CA – At the heart of most, if not all cancers, lie a handful of wayward stem cells that feed the ever growing tumor mass, but their scarcity make it difficult for scientists to study them. Now, times of plenty may lie ahead as a breast cancer cell line – established long ago – turned out to behave a lot like cancer stem cells.
read more >>Salk Institute receives a $2.3 million stem cell research facility grant
La Jolla, CA – The Salk Institute for Biological Studies was awarded a $2.3 million share of the stem cell research facilities grants approved by the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) on June 5.
read more >>Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
La Jolla, CA – Salk scientist Dr. Tony Hunter is the recipient of the 2006 Pasarow Award in Cancer Research for his key discoveries of the chemical "switch" that turns healthy cells into cancer cells.
read more >>Salk researchers successfully deliver protein across the blood-brain barrier
La Jolla, CA – Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have overcome a long-standing problem in biology by equipping a protein with a small homing device, allowing it to slip behind the blood-brain barrier. Circumventing this barrier – specifically designed to keep substances out of the brain – is a crucial step for the delivery of drugs to the central nervous system (CNS).
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