• MUSCLE BIOCHEMISTRY

    Updated: 2010-01-27 13:04:24
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  • Emerging Model Organisms, January Completes Volume 2

    Updated: 2010-01-26 22:03:26
    January’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols wraps up the second volume of our ongoing Emerging Model Organisms series. The idea behind the series is that technical advances have allowed for great expansion in the range of organisms used for research. Each set of articles is meant to introduce the reader to a [...]

  • LECTURE NOTES ON BIOCHEMISTRY

    Updated: 2010-01-23 18:10:33
    REVIEWS brief review of logarithms (PDF) Chemistry Review Session – Equilibria, pH/pK, practic

  • LECTURE NOTES ON BIOCHEMISTRY

    Updated: 2010-01-22 19:12:08
    Chapter 2 Water Chapter 3 Amino Acids and the Primary Structures of Proteins Chapter 4 Proteins:  Th

  • Cancer Genome Atlas Identifies Distinct Subtypes of the Brain Cancer Glioblastoma Multiforme

    Updated: 2010-01-19 22:50:05
    Gliobastoma (astrocytoma) WHO grade IV - MRI coronal view, post contrast. 15 year old boy;Image via

  • FISHing for Microbes

    Updated: 2010-01-19 22:07:04
    Metagenomics, the study of DNA isolated from naturally occurring populations and samples, is rapidly growing. Improvements to cloning and sequencing techniques are allowing researchers to study organism in environmental samples, and new knowledge of species interactions and community dynamics is emerging. The identification of microorganisms in these samples is of vital importance to [...]

  • Cancer Initiating Stem Cells Supress Immune Response to Brain Tumor and the Role of STAT3 Pathway in Immunosuppression

    Updated: 2010-01-17 17:50:45
    Glioblastoma (histology slide);Image via Wikipedia Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma

  • Pope Named Director of Proteomics Facility, Will Begin Accepting Projects in February

    Updated: 2010-01-13 22:25:29
    Marshall Pope, PhD has been named director of the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) Proteomics Core Facility.  Together with the addition of several new instruments, Dr. Pope will establish a robust and versatile facility for both qualitative and quantitative identification of proteins and their post-translational modifications. The appointment was effective October 31, 2009. Dr. Pope and [...]

  • UI Acquires Lasergene DNA Analysis Software License

    Updated: 2010-01-13 17:02:28
    The popular DNA sequence analysis software, Lasergene, is now available for use by all University of Iowa faculty, and staff using campus computers. The new license was acquired through American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds secured by Robert Piper, PhD,  and W. Scott Moye-Rowley, both professors of molecular physiology and biophysics. Lasergene software is comprised of [...]

  • Database of human Protein-DNA Interactions - hPDI

    Updated: 2010-01-13 06:05:12
    The characterization of the protein-DNA interactions usually requires three levels of analysis: 1.Ge

  • Mendelian Randomization: A Brief Overview

    Updated: 2010-01-12 13:56:31
    Introduction I’ve seen the term Mendelian randomization in a few articles and their related pa

  • Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, 26th edition By Robert K. Murray, Daryl K. Granner, Peter A. Mayes, Victor W. Rodwell

    Updated: 2010-01-12 00:16:08
    Robert K. Murray, Daryl K. Granner, Peter A. Mayes, Victor W. Rodwell (Authors), “Harper

  • MG-RAST for Analyzing Shotgun Metagenomes

    Updated: 2010-01-11 20:44:35
    As the cost of sequencing declines, more and more laboratories are extending their research into metagenomics. The Metagenomics RAST Server (MG-RAST) is one of the leading tools for metagenomic analysis, and in January’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, Folker Meyer and colleagues from the Argonne National Laboratory present a detailed set of instructions [...]

  • Research Week 2010 Call for Posters

    Updated: 2010-01-11 19:55:13
    Poster registrations are now being accepted for both poster sessions being held in conjunction with this year’s Health Sciences Research Week.  The Carver College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science will again be participating in the sessions. Dates and [...]

  • Workshop Aims to Sharpen Poster Presentation Skills

    Updated: 2010-01-11 19:45:59
    The Carver College of Medicine is inviting individuals planning on presenting a poster during this year’s Research Week event to attend a poster presentation workshop.  The purpose of the workshop is to assist students and investigators make clear and effective presentations of their research. The workshop will be held Thursday, February 4 from 6-7:30 pm in [...]

  • How To Study Medicine

    Updated: 2010-01-06 23:32:49
    Episode 20: Learn your innate learning style, 14 study techniques, 6 types of material you encounter in medical school and premed courses, ... tags: Podcast Science_Medicine Medicine Education Higher_Education biochemistry biology from Medical School Podcast

  • Upcoming Biomedical Scholar Lectures Announced

    Updated: 2010-01-06 20:22:45
    The Carver College of Medicine, partnering with its departments, has announced the 2010 Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series slate of speakers.  The series, still in its inaugural year, features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high impact research in a variety of areas.  Three investigators have presented seminars since the kick-off lecture in September.  These previous [...]

  • New Tissue Facility Available for Researchers

    Updated: 2010-01-06 19:32:12
    CCOM investigators utilizing human tissue in their research studies now have a new resource at their disposal.  The Carver College of Medicine Tissue Procurement Core Facility received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in late November and has begun the process of collecting, storing and logging tissue samples for use in current and future research.  The [...]

  • Registry Facilitates UI Senior Research

    Updated: 2010-01-06 19:00:52
    In 2007, The University of Iowa Center on Aging developed a registry of senior research volunteers to aid UI research studies involving participants from older populations.  Today, the Seniors Together in Aging Research (STAR) registry includes over 1,400 individuals age 50 and older and continues to recruit participants and facilitate clinical research. STAR matches research volunteers [...]

  • Study Provides Insight into Pathway Linked to Obesity

    Updated: 2010-01-06 17:38:01
    A new study involving the University of Iowa, Mayo Clinic and two other institutions provides insight on weight control, suggesting that a ATP-sensitive potassium channel critical to survival and stress adaptation can contribute to fat deposition and obesity. The investigation reveals how the ATP-sensitive potassium channel in the heart and skeletal muscles affects the balance between [...]

  • Grant Helps UI Research on Infantile Form of FSH Muscular Dystrophy

    Updated: 2010-01-06 17:35:26
    University of Iowa researchers will study the most prevalent type of muscular dystrophy, thanks to a one-year, $39,998 grant from the FSH Society, Inc. The organization focuses on raising awareness and advancing research on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), which affects about one in 14,286 individuals worldwide and currently has no treatment or cure. A team led [...]

  • AAAS Names Donelson and Fritsch as Fellows

    Updated: 2010-01-06 16:19:52
    Two University of Iowa faculty members — one from the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and one from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — have been awarded the distinction of 2009 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and [...]

  • Monitoring cellular immune response

    Updated: 2010-01-04 15:21:12
    The enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay is considered by many to be the gold standard for monitoring cellular immune responses. The method is highly sensitive, quantitative, easy to use and amenable to high throughput screening. Until recently, the ELISPOT assay has been limited to the characterization of only one single effector molecule. [...]

  • Disruption and scientific publishing

    Updated: 2010-01-04 15:15:15
    I wanted to point out an excellent thought-provoking article by my Scholarly Kitchen colleague Michael Clarke, titled Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already? I know many readers here are interested in the future of scientific communication, and Clarke makes some interesting arguments for why journals are likely to persist.

  • Live Cell Imaging Movies

    Updated: 2009-12-21 19:30:14
    Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is hosting the movie figures that accompany the new lab manual, Live Cell Imaging, Second Edition, edited by Robert Goldman, Jason Swedlow and David Spector, . These movies are freely accessible to all, and worth a look if you’re interested in seeing the state of the art in time lapse [...]

  • NVidia to launch a touch screen Android OS PC powered by 8 core chip that runs for 25 days

    Updated: 2009-12-21 05:33:45
    NVIDIA and Notion Ink, launches ‘Adam’, a touch screen tablet at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, a high-tech IT product that was completely developed in India, marking the country’s big entry into product development. With NVIDIA’s Tegra system-on-chip at its heart, Adam is a device the new generation technology user dreams of. [...]

  • I’ve collected my data, now what do I do with it?

    Updated: 2009-12-15 19:58:23
    4-dimensional live cell imaging has gone from being a rare technique used only by cutting-edge laboratories to a mainstream method in use everywhere. While more and more labs are becoming comfortable with the equipment and protocols needed to collect imaging data, performing detailed analyses is often problematic. The application of computational image processing [...]

  • Research on plants to produce pharmaceutical drugs

    Updated: 2009-12-15 00:04:12
    I have got too lazy after I started using twitter. So instead of posting  news story in my blog I just updated my twitter @clinicalsearch about  Dr Josh Mylne from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at University of Queensland receiving research fund to support research on plants to produce pharmaceutical drugs http://digs.by/10R9 My first thoughts about [...]

  • Integrated Predictive Toxicology Application Development

    Updated: 2009-12-08 12:00:29

  • DNA Methylation Profiling

    Updated: 2009-12-08 01:51:50
    With the recent progress in understanding epigenetic mechanisms, methods for profiling patterns of DNA modification have become important tools for analysis of gene regulation. DNA methylation, in which cytosine is modified to form 5-methylcytosine, is a well-characterized epigenetic modification essential for normal development in plants and mammals. In the December issue of Cold [...]

  • Indian Government to make biometric ID mandatory for clinical trials

    Updated: 2009-12-04 10:27:32
    Hit with allegations in the western media about unethical practices in conducting clinical trials, The Indian government and regulatory authorities are making a bolder move planning mandatory biometric identification for clinical trial volunteers in India. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to ask all clinical research organisations to enforce biometric identification for the volunteers [...]

  • One in 10 hospital prescriptions in UK ‘is wrong

    Updated: 2009-12-04 00:54:10
    I am not concerned about the number of mistakes made in UK hospitals. As a pharmacist I am concerned, if UK has such a high rate of medication errors, then what would be the rates in countries like India, where Pharmacists almost never over ride the prescriptions and physicians treat more than 100 patients every [...]

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