James DeMeo - Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water 2014 Spectrographic signatures in water induced by radiant fields from enclosures of various materials. James DeMeo - Orgone Biophysical Research Lab The Ninth Annual Conference on the Physics,... By: Conference on the Physics Chemistry and Biology of Water … Continue reading →

Curso de Biologa Molecular Replicacin del DNA - Clase 4 Molecular Biology - DNA Replication Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.... By: Jorge Contreras Pineda … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 8-Dec-2014 Contact: John Fleischman jfleischman@ascb.org 513-706-0212 American Society for Cell Biology @AmerSocCellBio A very tiny red carpet is ready. The paparazzi are gathering as a daring experiment in communicating cell biology comes to the test--who will watch the three "Tell Your Own Cell Story" videos commissioned by Celldance Studios, a.k.a. the ASCB's Public Information Committee (PIC)? Dubbed "microscopic blockbusters," the three short videos will premiere online from the 2014 ASCB/IFCB meeting in Philadelphia on Monday, December 8. All three are streamable and downloadable here. http://www.ascb.org/celldance-2014 The films are "Killing Cancer, Cytotoxic T-Cells on Patrol" by Alex Ritter, NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, "Companions in Discovery" by Amy Gladfelter, Dartmouth, and "Cell Repair" by Bill Bement, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The three films, which run from just under three minutes to just over seven, have original music soundtracks scored by Hollywood film composer Ted Masur. The idea of commissioning working cell biologists to make a film about their own research was a bold break this year for Celldance, explained PIC Chair Simon Atkinson. PIC started Celldance as a microscope video contest in 2005. The original idea, Atkinson explained, was to capture some of the fantastic microscope video that is … Continue reading →

Big visions for cell biology prompted Paul Allen to launch the Allen Institute for Cell Science, and new director Rick Horwitz explains its new way of seeing cells. Cell biologist Rick Horwitz will be the first director of the Allen Institute of Cell Science in Seattle, moving from his faculty job at the University of Virginia. We have not been seeing cells as they really are, says Rick Horwitz, and it is time for that to change. Traditional laboratories focus on one or two aspects of cells, and not on the way the hundreds of different pieces of molecular machinery within the cell affect one another. To improve that perspective, Horwitz is leaving his cell biology lab at the University of Virginia to become the inaugural director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle. The enterprise is being started today with a gift of $100 million from philanthropist Paul Allen, and will join the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Horwitz says the institute will kick off a large project, the Allen Cell Observatory, creating animated models of cells combined with an enormous database of cell parts that allows users to zoom into the genes and proteins that make … Continue reading →

Big visions for cell biology prompted Paul Allen to launch the Allen Institute for Cell Science, and new director Rick Horwitz explains its new way of seeing cells. Cell biologist Rick Horwitz will be the first director of the Allen Institute of Cell Science in Seattle, moving from his faculty job at the University of Virginia. We have not been seeing cells as they really are, says Rick Horwitz, and it is time for that to change. Traditional laboratories focus on one or two aspects of cells, and not on the way the hundreds of different pieces of molecular machinery within the cell affect one another. To improve that perspective, Horwitz is leaving his cell biology lab at the University of Virginia to become the inaugural director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle. The enterprise is being started today with a gift of $100 million from philanthropist Paul Allen, and will join the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Horwitz says the institute will kick off a large project, the Allen Cell Observatory, creating animated models of cells combined with an enormous database of cell parts that allows users to zoom into the genes and proteins that make … Continue reading →

Allen Institute Paul Allens latest philanthropic endeavour will be modelled on his successful brain institute. Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Allen plans to pump US$100million into investigating the most basic unit of life the cell. The Allen Institute for Cell Science, which was launched on 8 December, will be modelled on the Microsoft co-founders Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, which since 2003 has spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating a series of brain atlases that have become go-to portals for neuroscientists interested in where particular genes are active or how distant neurons communicate. As its first project, the latest Allen institute will develop an analogous cell observatory that will display how a cells working parts, such as ribosomes, microtubules and mitochondria, interact and operate over time, says executive director Rick Horwitz. He has shuttered his cell-biology laboratory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville to lead the institute, also in Seattle, Washington. It will take a global view of the myriad activities inside cells. The 70 or so scientific staff who will join the institute will work together on the overall goals of the observatory rather than on their own interests. Its going to be much … Continue reading →

Published December 08, 2014 Given more information about the biology of a mental disorder, doctors and therapists react with less empathy for the patient, a new study finds. The study didn't involve real patients - only short descriptions of fictional cases. Still, it found that psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers expressed less empathy for patients with conditions explained as biological rather than psychological. The findings challenge the notion that biological explanations of mental illness boost compassion for millions of Americans who suffer from psychological conditions. Our study demonstrates an example of the downside of the trend toward increasingly biological conceptualizations of mental health, lead author Matthew Lebowitz told Reuters Health. Overemphasizing this idea that people with mental disorders have something fundamentally wrong with their brains can be dehumanizing, he said. Lebowitz, a psychology graduate student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and his colleagues asked 343 U.S. clinicians to read fictional stories about mental health patients paired with explanations based wholly or partly on either genetics and neurobiology, or on childhood experiences and stressful life circumstances. The vignettes described people with social phobias, schizophrenia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In one, for example, the biological explanation for a college students … Continue reading →