Released: 6-Nov-2003 3:30 PM EST
Cell Biologists Oppose UN Ban on Cloning Research
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The world's largest society of cell biology researchers released a statement today opposing a proposed United Nations ban on cloning research as overbroad and likely to damage biomedical progress against human disease.

Released: 10-Nov-2003 5:10 PM EST
ASCB Press Book Ready for World’s Biggest Cell Bio Meeting
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

"Cell Biology 2003," the essential press guide for the American Society for Cell Biology's Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2003, in San Francisco, is now available at no charge to science journalists.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: Fresh-Dried Stem Cells ‘To Go’
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the Annual Meeting: Cell biologists at UC Davis show for the first time that mesenchymal stem cells can be dehydrated for storage and activated for possible use in future stem cell therapies.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: A Worm Model for Human Epileptic Seizures
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the Meeting"”A simple worm with exactly 302 neurons may serve as a laboratory model for epileptic seizures in the vastly more complex human brain, say University of Alabama cell biologists.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
Loss of Dynein in Mice Linked to Late-Onset Neuromuscular Disease in Humans
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the meeting"” A new discovery about neuronal transport in mice may clarify a rare but devastating progressive neuromuscular disease in humans, according to University of Pennsylvania cell biologists.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: Putting the Squeeze on Stem Cells
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the Meeting: Johns Hopkins researchers demonstrate that a simple mechanical cue"”growing room"”can influence the fate of mesenchymal stem cells.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: Holding the Gates of the Nuclear ‘Fortress’
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the ASCB meeting"”The human genome is kept safe inside the cell nucleus behind gates called nuclear pore complexes. UC San Diego researchers have now identified the "linchpins" that hold these critical gates together.

8-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: a Fast and Furious Love Song
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the meeting: The fast and furious "sonic" muscle of the male midshipman fish gives NIAMS researchers a possible clue to a human muscle-weakening genetic disease.

9-Dec-2003 7:00 AM EST
At The Meeting: Must-See TV-- Flu Infects Living Cell
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the meeting: Harvard biologist shows video of a never-before-witnessed sight"”the transport and fusion of a single influenza virus inside a living cell.

9-Dec-2003 7:00 AM EST
At the Meeting: How HIV-1 Crosses the Placenta
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the meeting: Canadian researchers trace the intra-cellular pathway of HIV-1 through trophoblasts, the special cells of the placenta, and a little understood route for mother-to-child HIV infection.

9-Dec-2003 7:00 AM EST
“Bionic Ear” Project Finds Stem Cells for Critical Inner-Ear Sensory Hairs
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the meeting: European "Bionic Ear" researchers report isolation of stem cells from vestibular sensory epithelia (VSE) that can be manipulated into becoming new sensory hair-cells.

10-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
Sex Reversal--Why Genetic XY Males Develop as Females
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Researchers trace human sex reversal"”genetic XY males born with female reproductive organs or genitalia"”to a misshapen protein that cannot enter the cell nucleus.

10-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
Metal-Induced Genomic Instability: Long-Term Effects of Chromium and Vanadium
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Cells exposed briefly to soluble metal ions, specifically chromium or vanadium, can become chromosomally damaged, resulting in long-term genomic instability.

10-Dec-2003 6:00 AM EST
Taking the Strain Off Injured Muscles
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Weeks after the initial injury, the formation of fibrotic or scar tissue in muscle can prevent total recovery, say researchers, but the key to healing without scarring may be in controlling an overlooked transforming growth factor.

16-Dec-2003 7:10 AM EST
Top Late Abstracts Named as “Hot Picks” at Annual Meeting
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

ASCB names"Hot Picks," top research papers in Late Abstracts presentions at Annual Meeting. Papers cover range of topics from the origins of Gullah-speaking African-Americans to a powerful cellular self-defense mechanism against breast cancer.

Released: 25-Feb-2004 6:00 PM EST
ASCB President Says "Creationism" Does Not Belong in Ohio's Classrooms
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Harvey Lodish, president of the American Society for Cell Biology and an Ohio native son, calls on Governor Taft and the Ohio Board of Education to reject the latest attempt by Creationists to undermine Ohio science education.

Released: 2-Mar-2004 9:30 AM EST
Cell Biologists Protest Bush Firing of Top Researcher from Bioethics Council
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The ASCB is protesting the Bush administration's "Friday Afternoon Massacre," the removal of Elizabeth Blackburn, renowned biologist and former ASCB president from the President's Bioethics panel, saying the firing significantly undermines the Council scientific credibility.

Released: 29-Jun-2004 6:30 AM EDT
Lindquist, Näthke Win ASCB “Women In Cell Biology” Career Awards
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Two scientists whose research discoveries changed the ground rules in their respective fields were named winners today of the 2004 "Women In Cell Biology Senior and Junior Career Awards" by the American Society for Cell Biology.

Released: 9-Aug-2004 8:30 AM EDT
Top Scientific Medal to Tom Pollard Who Discovered How Cells Move
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Yale's Tom Pollard,the cell biologist whose research group discovered the long-sought mechanism by which eukaryotic cells move and change shape, is the 2004 winner of the E.B. Wilson Medal, the highest scientific honor of the American Society for Cell Biology.

Released: 14-Sep-2004 12:00 AM EDT
Online “Working Press” Registration Opens for Cell Biology Meeting
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The American Society for Cell Biology has opened its "Free Online "˜Working Press' Registration" at www.ascb.org for science journalists interested in covering its 44th Annual Meeting.

Released: 19-Oct-2004 3:20 PM EDT
Cell Biologists Caution UN Against Compromising Stem Cell Research
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The American Society for Cell Biology, with 11,000 scientist members working in basic biomedical research in the US and 50 countries around the world, opposes any United Nations action to prohibit stem cell research with the potential to understand and treat disease.

Released: 8-Nov-2004 12:00 AM EST
“Cell Biology 2004 Press Book” Now Open Online for Working Press
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

A "pdf" version of "Cell Biology 2004," the press book for the ASCB Annual Meeting, Dec. 4-8, is now accessible to registered science journalists. Registration is free, carries no obligation to attend, and is thus one heck of a deal.

2-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
Follow the Embryonic Stem Cell Road to Cardiac Cell Progenitors
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Johns Hopkins researcher John Gearhart has taken another small step on the road toward replenishing damaged cardiac tissue with pre-cursor cardiac cells grown from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) in a highly reproducible system through controlled ES cell differentiation.

2-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
Visualizing the Kiss of Death
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Using time-lapse confocal laser-scanning microscopy,NIH researchers have captured on video human T-cells zeroing in for the kill on viruses, revealing for the first time that "killer" T-cells take far longer to dispatch their viral enemies than was generally believed.

2-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
Viral Entry: Old Dogs Teach New Tricks
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

At the ASCB Meeting: Videos made by Swiss researchers employing advanced light microscopy techniques show viruses forcing their way into living cells through two previously unsuspected pathways that bypass known endosomal routes.

2-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
An “Attractive” Approach for Repairing CNS Injury
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Severed axons do not regenerate after CNS injury because regrowth is blocked in part by glial scars. Sally Meiners of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School designs grafts or scaffolds to bridge that barrier with small molecules from the extracellular matrix.

2-Dec-2004 6:00 PM EST
Parkinson’s Disease: Shootout at the Microtubule Corral?
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Parkinson's is caused by the selective death of dopamine-producing neurons. By using an agricultural pesticide known to produce "Parkinson-like" symptoms, a researcher has found connections between pesticide damage and mutated parkin.

3-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
Pushing the Nuclear Envelope
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The cell nucleus is a dynamic organelle -- "Mothership of the Human Genome" as one researcher calls it -- acting on chromatin, genes, and DNA while resisting disease. Now a study of the nuclear envelope's physical properties by molecular bioengineers and cell biologists reveals a new role"”-molecular shock absorber.

3-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
A Bacteria and a Nematode: Natural Born Pest Killers
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Searching for eco-friendly, "natural" biological control strategies, scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi have identified the potent killer protein created by an insecticidal bacterium that lives symbiotically with an "entomopathogenic" nematode.

3-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
Cell Phone Radiation Shows Biological Effects on Cytoskeleton
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Low-level radio frequency radiation from mobile phones appears to produce biological effects on a cytoskeletal protein in human endothelial cells grown in culture, according to data released by the head of the Finnish national radiation safety laboratory.

3-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
Autophagy Shows Teeth in Self-Defense
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Autophagy means "self-eating." Cells use it to survive starvation and to recycle proteins but work by Japanese researchers at the National Institute of Genetics show autophagy in a new role as the cell's innate 'second line of defense' against invading pathogens such as strep. bacteria.

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
Some Don't Like It Hot: Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Thermotaxis
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Knowing what's hot and what's not is vital for living things. The ability to know when it's too hot and move away is called "thermotaxis." Now for the first time in animals, MIT biologists have identified a temperature-sensing protein that mediates thermotaxis.

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:00 PM EST
On the Most Wanted List: Skin Cancer ‘Mug Shots’
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

A gallery of highly-specific, gene and protein "mug shots" of cancer types would be a powerful "ID kit" for oncologists. The first systematic demonstration by NIH scientists that normal skin pigment-forming melanocytes and cancerous melanoma cells express different isoforms of an important transporter protein is another clue for a skin cancer "rogues' gallery."

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:30 PM EST
At the ASCB Meeting: Smoke Gets in Your Wound
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Clinical studies have shown that cigarette smoke"”whether "first-" or "second-hand""”slows wound healing and increases the risk of scarring. In a closer look at fibroblast cell migration in wound healing, researchers found that cigarette smoke delays the formation of healing tissue.

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:30 PM EST
The Curious Case of PKD: A Cellular Whodunit Solved
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

A new study provides yet more compelling evidence that defective cilia are the predominant cause of polycystic kidney disease. Defective cilia may cause kidney epithelial cell overgrowth by failing to serve as biomechanical sensors.

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:50 PM EST
A Plague On Many Houses
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

During its life cycle, Y. pestis, the infamous "Black Death" bacteria must survive the "bio" environment of a flea in order to explode in the vastly different human system. A team turned advanced robotic high-throughput technologies on Y. pestis, looking for weaknesses in this highly adaptable killer.

Released: 3-Dec-2004 5:50 PM EST
Born Hungry
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Noboru Mizushima of Japan's National Institute of Genetics has disturbing news"”babies are born starving. This is no metaphor. Neonates are so hungry that they start eating themselves or, at least, newborn lab mice "˜eat' their own cells in the first three to 12 hours after birth to tide them over.

Released: 7-Dec-2004 4:40 PM EST
Ink Jet Printers in the Lab and Asthma in the Airways
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Asthma's mechanical impact on the cells lining constricted airways and how a color ink jet printer can be used to study muscle fiber formation are the two top "Hot Picks" chosen from more than 380 late-breaking abstracts.

Released: 16-May-2005 7:50 PM EDT
ASCB Wins Presidential Award for Mentoring Diversity in Science
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Acting on behalf of the White House, the National Science Foundation today awarded the ASCB the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for its efforts to change the face of science by bringing minorities, women and other under-represented groups into research biology.

Released: 1-Aug-2005 8:40 AM EDT
Cell Biology Society Praises Senator Frist's Stem Cell Decision
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The nation's largest society of research cell biologists, the ASCB, welcomes the support of Republican Senator Bill Frist for expanding federal support of embryonic stem cell research.

Released: 18-Apr-2014 12:00 PM EDT
The Kaluza Prizes Are Back, Bigger Than Ever as ASCB and Sponsor Beckman Coulter Increase Number of 2014 Cash Awards
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The Kaluza Prizes to honor the best in graduate student bioscience research are growing. In announcing the opening of the 2014 Kaluza Prize competition, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), in collaboration with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, said that the awards will increase to $5,000, $3,000, and $1,000 in ranked order for the top three winners.

Released: 7-May-2014 1:00 PM EDT
Cell Biologists’ Top Scientific Honor Goes to Pioneers of the Cytoskeleton
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

If cells were cars, the three pioneering cell biologists just named winners of the 2014 E.B. Wilson Medal, the ASCB’s highest scientific honor, helped write the essential parts list. Bill Brinkley of Baylor, John Heuser of Washington University, St. Louis, and Peter Satir of Albert Einstein College of Medicine identified crucial pieces of the cytoskeleton, the cell’s shape-shifting framework, and showed how these elements drive life at the cellular level.

Released: 4-Jun-2014 8:00 AM EDT
ASCB and NIGMS Land “Life: Magnified,” Eye-Popping Microscope Image Exhibit at Washington Dulles Airport and Online
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Travelers at DC’s Dulles airport will find themselves in an exotic microscopic world as “Life: Magnified,” an exhibit of 46 eye-popping color images of life on the cellular level, opens in Concourse C. “Life: Magnified” is a project of ASCB and NIH, and the Airports Authority with support from ZEISS.

25-Jul-2014 5:00 PM EDT
DORA Science Coalition Greets New 2014 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) With New “JIF-Less” Assessment Site
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

“JIF Day” is late this year and the DORA “anti-JIF” coalition of scientists and journal editors is greeting the delayed arrival this week of the 2014 Journal Impact Factor (JIFs) from Thomson Reuters with examples of JIF-less “good practices” for scientific assessment and a new web page.

24-Nov-2014 8:00 AM EST
An Unholy Alliance—Colon Cancer Cells in situ Co-Opt Fibroblasts in Surrounding Tissue to Break Out
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

In work to be presented at the ASCB/IFCB meeting in Philadelphia, researchers from the Institut Curie in Paris report that they have evidence of a coordinated attack on the basement membrane of human colon cells by cancer cells in situ and CAF cells in the extracellular matrix that begins long before the actual translocation of cancer cells.

25-Nov-2014 8:00 AM EST
Blood Brain Barrier on a Chip Could Stand in for Children in Pediatric Brain Research
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Now bioengineering researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia have come up with an experimental workaround—a synthetic pediatric blood-brain barrier on a small chip—and have tested it successfully using rat brain endothelial cells (RBECs) from rat pups and human endothelial cells.

24-Nov-2014 10:00 AM EST
Alzheimer’s in a Dish Model Converts Skin Cells to Induced Neurons Expressing Amyloid-Beta and Tau
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The search for a living laboratory model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—the so-called “Alzheimer’s in a dish”—has a new candidate. Håkan Toresson and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden report success in creating induced neurons that model Alzheimer’s by starting with fibroblasts taken from skin biopsies.

25-Nov-2014 8:00 AM EST
Screening for Matrix Effect in Leukemia Subtypes Could Sharpen Chemotherapy Targeting
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Jae-Won Shin and David Mooney of Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, MA, describe building a three-dimensional (3D) hydrogel system with tunable stiffness to see how relative stiffness of the surrounding ECM affected the resistance of human myeloid leukemias to chemotherapeutic drugs.

25-Nov-2014 10:00 AM EST
Rescuing the Golgi Puts Brakes on Alzheimer’s Progress
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The even more surprising answer was that rescuing the Golgi reduced Aβ accumulation significantly, apparently by re-opening a normal protein degradation pathway for the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

25-Nov-2014 11:00 AM EST
Gravity--It’s the Law Even for Cells
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The average animal cell is 10 microns across but why? Princeton bioengineers take their story of gravity in cells one step further at ASCB, describing how cells manage to support thousands of membrane-less compartments inside the nucleus


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