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Peering into a more ‘human’ petri dish

Posted on November 6, 2019

Cell culture media, the cocktail of chemicals and nutrients that keep cells alive and thriving in a dish, have been an essential tool of biology for more than 70 years. Jason Cantor is thinking about cell culture media from another angle: Can we make it more human?

Posted in NewsTagged blood cancers, cell culture, HPLM, Research

Hoskins earns grant to study splicing inhibitors, connection to cancer

Posted on August 29, 2019

With a grant from the Edward P. Evans Foundation, biochemistry associate professor Aaron Hoskins is searching for new treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes — a type of blood cancer — by being able to screen for RNA splicing inhibitors using “humanized” yeast.

Posted in NewsTagged blood cancers, Grant, MDS, myelodysplastic syndromes, Research, RNA splicing

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