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Blood Brain Barrier on a Chip Could Stand in for Children in Pediatric Brain Research

December 8, 2014

In the human brain, the BBB is not the Better Business Bureau but the blood brain barrier and the BBB…

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An Unholy Alliance—Colon Cancer Cells in situ Co-Opt Fibroblasts in Surrounding Tissue to Break Out

December 7, 2014

It means cancer “in place” but a carcinoma “in situ” often does not want to keep its place. Standing between…

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Screening for Matrix Effect in Leukemia Subtypes Could Sharpen Chemotherapy Targeting

December 7, 2014

Location, location, location goes the old real estate proverb but cancer also responds to its neighborhood, particularly in the physical…

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Complementary Light Switchable Proteins and Superresolution Reveal Moving Protein Complexes in Live Cells at Single Molecule Level

December 7, 2014

Cells are restless. They move during embryogenesis, tissue repair, regeneration, chemotaxis. Even in disease, tumor metastasis, cells get around. To…

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The National Academies’ Research Associateship Programs

November 6, 2014

The National Academies’ Research Associateship Programs administer postdoctoral (within five years of the doctorate) and senior (normally five years or…

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Show Congress the Face of Biomedical Research—Your Face

October 9, 2014

ASCB’s third annual We Are Research campaign needs you and your labmates to put a face on biomedical research. At…

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WICB Speaker Referral Service

May 9, 2014

Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee Speaker Referral Service Organizers of scientific meetings, scientific review panels, and university symposia/lecture series…

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RNAi Therapy Takes Step from Bench to Bedside

June 10, 2013

RNA interference (RNAi) is a Nobel Prize-winning discovery first published in 1998 by Andrew Fire and Craig Mello. The potential…

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MAC Offers Junior Faculty and Postdoc Career Development Workshop

March 8, 2012

Whether you’re looking to establish your academic career at a research-intensive or teaching institution or know someone who is, please…

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PIC Associates

January 24, 2012

Interested in science outreach? ASCB members, volunteer now for PIC Associates The Public Information Committee (PIC) relies on volunteer PIC…

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