Health News

Finding inspiration to rebuild human heart muscle

Advances in cardiac tissue engineering offer hope for an array of useful applications, from heart repair to disease modeling. As part of active, ongoing research related to bioengineering functional human organs, Adam Feinberg and his team are finding inspiration from the developing heart to rebuild human heart muscle. Inside the adult human heart, the myocardium […]

Pet Care

These Pitties Need Your Help Finding Homes

This week, we are shining an extra special spotlight on two fabulous pit bulls! Meet Max and Tony! These two pups are each looking for homes to call their own and adopters who will love them for who they are.  Unfortunately, pit bulls often fall victim to unfair stereotypes and misconceptions and can sometimes spend […]

Pet Care

Finding Help and Hope After a Hurricane

A day before Hurricane Laura slammed into Louisiana on August 27, Henry “Andy” Roach made one of the hardest decisions of his life. He only had room in his pickup truck for the four adults he needed to evacuate, including his 88-year-old mother, and had no choice but to leave behind his two beloved dogs, […]

Personal Health

Team plucks needle from genomic haystack, finding essential transcription factor binding sites

Using CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens a multi-institutional research team systematically interrogated the essentiality of more than 10,000 forkhead box protein A1 (FOXA1) and CTCF binding sites in breast and prostate cancer cells, plucking useful needles from a massive genomic haystack that contains millions of transcription factor binding sites. They found that essential FOXA1 binding sites act […]

Health Problems

One step closer to finding a cure for brain diseases

A research team led by Professor Jaewon Ko and Ji Won Um from Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences identified a new principle of formation of brain synapses through synaptic binding protein complexes. Many nerve cells that make up the brain control the function of the brain through synapses. Although recent studies show that synaptic […]