Sackler School in the News
03.13.08: STOPPING UNWANTED
CELL DEATH: IMPLICATIONS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY:
Kinase Identified as Cellular Target for Inhibiting Necrosis
in Disease
Research
published in Nature Chemical Biology reveals
that three specific inhibitors of a cell death pathway,
termed necroptosis, all target and inhibit RIP1 kinase,
a protein that can direct cells into necrosis."Our
research found that RIP1 kinase can be inhibited by three
small molecules: necrostatin-1, -3 and -5," reports
first author Alexei Degterev,
PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry at the Sackler
School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences...>> Full
story
01.03.08: Revolutionary
Parasite Theory
"What
if I told you," Joel Weinstock said, "there
were countries where the doctors had never seen hay fever?" It is another
piece of evidence, another "aha" moment
in the global medical mystery that Weinstock - the chief
of gastroenterology and hepatology at Tufts-New England
Medical Center - has narrowed down to one chief suspect:
the worms... >> Full
story
11.28.07: DARWIN’S
SURPRISE:
Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct
deadly viruses?
The Sackler School's John Coffin,
Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, was recently interviewed on
the new science of paleovirology and the "long evolutionary
embrace of man and virus" on WBUR. Dr. Coffin, who admits that "the idea of bringing
something dead back to life is fundamentally frightening," also appears in the
December 3rd issue of The New Yorker, where he discusses
his research on the role of endogenous retroviruses in human evolution.
>> Listen
to the WBUR On Point interview, aired Wednesday,
November 28, 2007
>> Read
the "Darwin's Surprise" article in The
New Yorker,
November 29, 2007
10.29.07: Collaborating for the
Cure
Tufts' Charlotte Kuperwasser and
Michael Rosenblatt first
met six years ago at the world-renowned Whitehead Institute
for Biomedical Research. She was a 20-something postdoctoral
researcher who had just finished up her Ph.D. He was
an accomplished scientist on sabbatical from Harvard
Medical School. The pair, each with an interest in
cancer metastasis, made an instant connection... >> Full story
09.18.07: Sackler School Researcher Named New
Innovator by NIH Director for Groundbreaking Work in
Infectious Diseases
Ekaterina Heldwein, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular biology
at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler
School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University
in Boston, has been named one of 29 recipients of the
National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator
Award. Heldwein is using structural and biophysical approaches
to discover how, in atomic-level detail, herpesviruses
enter host cells... >> Full article
08.01.2007:
Glia Got Rhythm, article on new study by Sackler
Neuroscience team, appears in Neuron
Previous studies
suggest that glia may be required for normal circadian
behavior, but glial factors required for rhythmicity
have not been identified in any system. F.
Rob Jackson and Joowoon
Suh show here that a circadian rhythm in
Drosophila Ebony (N-β-alanyl-biogenic
amine synthetase) abundance can be visualized in adult
glia and... >> Summary
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