Why are most brain cancers so difficult to treat leaving the unfortunate patients who suffer from them in dire circumstances so often? The short answer is that we don’t know why. This lack of understanding is like a wall standing between the cures and us for these patients. We have to climb or knockdown this […]
Brain cancer: why histones including H3.3 are so important Read More »
I emailed Dr. Raymond Chung about the patent application that was filed with him and Hisashi Moriguchi as inventors and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the assignee (owner). I have already heard from Harvard about the patent, but I also heard today from MGH Public Affairs Officer Sue McGreevey in response to my inquiry to
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I have a poll running regarding who would have been the best choice to share the Nobel Prize with Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon, and so far the winner is Ian Wilmut, who cloned the first mammal, Dolly the sheep. I should have included another option to indicate the possible preference that NO ONE should
Wilmut voted most-deserving of 3rd Nobel slot with Yamanka & Gurdon in poll Read More »
In a few hours I’m going to submit my current R01 proposal to my institutional grants office, which will then submit it to NIH as is required by NIH. I’m tired. My brain is tired. I have a cold. I’ve read the grant a hundred times at least. I’ve had colleagues read it. I’ve taken
My R01 is due in a few hours, what’s on my mind besides ice cream? Read More »
What are stem cells? in Korean is 줄기세포란 무엇인가? 줄기세포란 무엇인가? 인간의 신체는 하루하루의 건강에 중요한 역할을 하는 수백 종류의 다른 세포들로 구성되어 있습니다. 이 세포들은 우리의 심장을 뛰게 하고, 뇌가 생각 하게 하며, 신장에서 혈액을 정화시키고, 벗겨져 나간 피부세포를 대체하는 등 매일같이 우리의 신체를 유지하는 역할을 하고 있습니다. 줄기세포의 고유한 역할은 이런 다양한 세포들을
Yesterday I managed to get to see a fabulous talk by Dr. Edison Liu, President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory in Maine. I was able to squeeze it in, in between working on my R01 proposal and preparing for teaching histo to the med students here at UC Davis Med School. Dr. Liu was
Chromatin/Genomics/Transcription Tools ChIP grade antibodies MOTIF enrichment tools for DNA analysis GREAT (Stanford) CEAS HOMER MEME ENCODE Promoter Array On-line Analysis Online Tiling Array Analysis ChIP-Seq data on-line Analysis Plant Tools Transfac UC Davis Genome Center Methylation tools Yeast tools Fly ChIP-chip database General Science Tools Blast Search Genomic Blast Search ENSEMBL Blat Search
Handy BioMed Science Tools Read More »
This morning the Internet here at UC Davis Medical Center was on and off down for a couple hours. You’d think we had suffered a complete electronic catastrophe of the kind on the new sci-fi show on NBC, Revolution by JJ Abrams, where nothing electronic works even if it is battery powered. Here it was
Why you are probably an Internet addict too Read More »
One of the great things about having my lab here in Shriners Hospital of Northern California on the UC Davis Medical Center Campus is the spirit of the amazing kids here. Facing severe injuries these kids are true heroes and are far braver than any adult I know, but they still need assistance in various
Who is Frankie the pot-bellied pig? Read More »
Yesterday I had part I of my interview with NIGMS former Director, Dr. Jeremy Berg. Today we have part II of the interview, which I found very interesting and helpful in providing a glimpse into NIH. I appreciate Dr. Berg doing the interview and his frankness. Given the budgetary issues facing NIH in terms of
Jeremy Berg interview part II: the future of NIH funding Read More »