Year: 2012 Archive — Page 7 of 50

Gray-haired man in a suit and red tie speaks at a lectern in a lecture hall, with a computer monitor beside him and a chalkboard behind him.
November 29, 2012

Nobel laureate sheds light on RNA research

There’s been an explosion in the world of RNA — the nucleic acid “copy” of DNA, Nobel laureate Phillip Sharp, Ph.D., told the crowd gathered for his Flexner Discovery Lecture.

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November 29, 2012

Rochester’s Maquat set for Flexner Discovery Lecture

Lynne Maquat, Ph.D., the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of Rochester, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 6.

Vanderbilt University campus buildings surrounding a curving roadway and landscaped grounds.
November 29, 2012

Steam test scheduled for Dec. 1

Composite grid of 17 headshots arranged in two rows, each labeled with a surname: Aschner, Beth, Caprioli, Chalkley, Coffey, Cone, Conn, Delpire, Emerson, Harrison, Mchaourab, Pietenpol, Roden, Stassun, Tansey, Vermund, and Wright.
November 29, 2012

Record number elected AAAS fellows

Seventeen members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year.

Gray-haired man in a striped shirt and tie sits in a laboratory beside a computer and illuminated research equipment.
November 29, 2012

Polarity protein suppresses tumor growth, invasion

The machinery that builds the characteristic shape of epithelial cells suppresses breast cancer formation and metastasis in a mouse model.

Smiling woman holds a book titled “BLACK & WHITE in a Multi-Colored America, Volume 1” outside an emergency department entrance.
November 29, 2012

Late ED nurse’s book celebrates cultural diversity

It was, everyone agreed, a horrific end to a beautiful life.