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CBRC Briefing Pain Research: On the-Verge of a Breakthrough
September 11, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Pain Research: On the-Verge of a Breakthrough

Dr. Allan Basbaum, a world renowned researcher who studies the fundamental mechanisms that contribute to the development of chronic pain, discusses the different types of chronic pain and the recent

CBRC Briefing Bioengineering the Future
July 8, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Bioengineering the Future

Envision a day when we load a computer chip with medicine and implant it in a patient’s body, then that medicine goes right to the gene or tumor site. Science

CBRC Briefing Understanding Vulnerability to Opioid Addiction
June 10, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Understanding Vulnerability to Opioid Addiction

Huda Akil, PhD, University of Michigan

CBRC Briefing Unearthing the Cause of ALS
May 20, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Unearthing the Cause of ALS

Remember the ice bucket challenge? Did you, like millions of Americans, dump cold water on your head to help raise funds for research into ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)? Since the

CBRC Briefing Zika Virus: What Is It and Can We Stop It?
April 15, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Zika Virus: What Is It and Can We Stop It?

Join the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus as Dr. Weaver, a nationally distinguished virologist, explains what the Zika virus is. Dr. Weaver will discuss the outbreaks caused by this mosquito-borne virus

CBRC Briefing How to Make New Drugs? Start with Basic Research!
March 23, 2016in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

How to Make New Drugs? Start with Basic Research!

Dr. Mark Fishman of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, discusses several current programs in drug discovery that promise to change the practice of medicine. Each grew from basic science

CBRC Briefing Chromothripsis and the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
September 16, 2015in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Chromothripsis and the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

One of the features of many cancers is the loss of genome integrity. One of the most stunning examples of this is chromothripsis. Chromothripsis involves the shuffling or rearrangement of

CBRC Briefing Can Cells Return from the Brink of Death?
July 29, 2015in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Can Cells Return from the Brink of Death?

Scientific dogma for decades has dictated that once a cell dies it cannot be resurrected. Dr. Denise Montell discusses her groundbreaking discovery that overturns this widely held belief. What she

CBRC Briefing How to Grow a New Limb
May 13, 2015in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

How to Grow a New Limb

Every day, the human body replaces an estimated 10 billion cells lost to injury or ordinary cellular housekeeping. More dramatically, cut a worm into two fragments and each fragment regenerates

CBRC Briefing Rising from the Dirt: A New Antibiotic Breakthrough
April 29, 2015in CBRC Briefing 0 Comments 0 Likes

Rising from the Dirt: A New Antibiotic Breakthrough

Dr. Kim Lewis from Northeastern University discusses how we are experiencing a human health crisis due to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. There are strains of tuberculosis and certain bacteria,

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