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Guest Blog: Reflecting on the 2024 Society of Toxicology of Canada Symposium, by Ria Falvo, Director, Reporting

Alta Sciences

Guest Blog: Reflecting on the 2024 Society of Toxicology of Canada Symposium, by Ria Falvo, Director, Reporting pmjackson Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:47 Ria Falvo, Director of Reporting, and Rina Massarelli, Associate Director of Safety Reporting, in Toronto, Ontario, for the 2024 STC Symposium.

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Biomarkers: A Novel Approach to Understanding Dementia

PerkinElmer

Accelerating Capabilities for Dementia Biomarker Discovery To achieve that goal, the Dementia Platform’s focus involves studying the disease from many points of view – from lifestyle, age, and cognitive function, to genetics, cell biology, and phenotypic screening. Mrc.ukri.org. 2022 [cited 6 January 2022].

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A New Type of Bookworm: Bringing Patient Perspectives Into the Classroom?

KIF1A

In this blog post, KIF1A.ORG Chief Science Officer Dr. Dominique Lessard describes a unique cross disciplinary experience with multiple scientific stakeholders in the rare disease space, all focused around our holistic understanding of KAND. What do worms, a classroom full of students, and members of the KAND family community have in common?

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Engineering the brightest proteins from the depths | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

In this blog, we look at some of the bioluminescent tools that have been developed from proteins isolated from luminescent organisms flourishing in these environments. Water covers more than 70% of the planet and the deep-sea accounts for more than 300 million km 2 of the Earth’s surface.

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Role of second messengers in the cell | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Effectors of signal transmission events Second messengers are small molecules or ions that transmit signals received at the cell surface to the inside environment of the cell (Fig.

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A Ray of Molecular Beauty from Cryo-EM

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

They did it using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a groundbreaking technique featured several times here on my blog. Eric Xu, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, and Anthony Kossiakiff, University of Chicago.

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Fast Biology

Codon

As scientists devise more experiments and take more measurements, they often make them available in papers, pre-prints, websites and blogs. Credit: Rob Phillips and Ron Milo, Cell Biology by the Numbers. 3 Part of the beauty of science is that it builds upon itself, one experiment at a time. These numbers suggest that E.

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