Cancer

  • Tom Cech's lab is focused, in part, on studying telomerase: a powerful enzyme found at the ends of chromosomes.
    听A deep look inside the live cells reveals a key cancer process听Telomerase, a powerful enzyme found at the ends of chromosomes, can keep humans healthy, or promote cancer growth. Researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder used a
  • Phil Richardson, an author on a paper recently published in Nature, developed a love for bioinformatics in BioFrontiers' Robin Dowell's lab. His next move: pursuing a graduate degree in medical genomics.
    Bioinformatics answers questions of cancer and career pathPhil Richardson, an author on a paper recently published in Nature, developed a love for bioinformatics in BioFrontiers' Robin Dowell's lab. His next move: pursuing a graduate degree in
  • BioFrontiers Hubert Yin is focused on toll-like receptors that may play a role in new cancer therapies.
    BioFrontiers鈥 Hubert Yin is unlocking the power of toll-like receptorsHubert Yin has been thinking about one type of cell receptor since he joined the BioFrontiers Institute, and it is a receptor worthy of that kind of time. Yin, an Associate
  • Telomeres sit at the ends of chromosomes to protect their genetic data (colorful DNA pic) Credit: Jane Ades, NHGRI
    Among cancers, scientists have spent their entire research careers looking for cellular similarities that may lead to a single cure for many cancers 鈥撯 the rare chance to have a single answer to a multifaceted problem. In 1997, scientists discovered
  • Robin Dowell collaborated with MCDB's Joaquin Espinosa and Mary Allen (pictured below) to make sense of p53.
    A major collaboration of Colorado institutions uses new technology to show, after more than 30 years and 50,000 papers on the subject, the direct targets of the gene p53, the most potent 鈥渢umor suppressor鈥 gene. The finding is a strong step toward
  • Telomeres sit at the ends of chromosomes to protect their genetic data. Credit: Jane Ades, NHGRI
    In a听new paper released today in听Nature, BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for anti-cancer drug development that is sitting at the ends of our
  • Biofrontiers scientist, Hubert Yin, is focused on making morphine more effective and less addictive.
    A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for improving the efficacy of
  • Sara
    Yin Lab Student Selected for Cancer Award 听 听Sara Coulup, a junior undergraduate majoring in biochemistry, has been selected by the听American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) for a 2012-2013 Thomas J. Bardos Science Education
  • Biofrontiers Institute scientist, Hang (Hubert) Yin’s, focus on the Epstein Barr virus is leading him to a greater understanding of how cancer invades cells. Photo courtesy: Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado Boulder
    Stopping cancer's knock on the doorAs a self-proclaimed 鈥渟cience nerd鈥 in a Beijing high school, Hubert Yin considered biochemistry to be the ultimate in cool. It was the only science, he felt, that was capable of explaining what he thought was the
  • Biofrontiers scientist, Hubert Yin, is using fluorescent biomarkers to develop a better screening method for cancer.
    Biomarkers light the way to cancer diagnosis 听In an 18-year study released this summer by the National Cancer Institute, widespread screening for ovarian cancer was found to be ineffective in catching the disease. In fact, the screening often
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