Greehey CCRI News & Events Archive
MDPI: Synergism of Proneurogenic miRNAs Provides a More Effective Strategy to Target Glioma Stem Cells (Penalva & Pertsemlidis Labs)
January 14, 2021Adam Kosti, Rodrigo Barreiro, Gabriela D. A. Guardia, Shiva Ostadrahimi, Erzsebet Kokovay, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Pedro A. F. Galante, Luiz O. F. Penalva Simple Summary miRNAs function as critical regulators of gene expression and have been defined as …
Nature Communications: Interaction between SNAI2 and MYOD enhances oncogenesis and suppresses differentiation in Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma (Ignatius, Houghton, Chen)
January 14, 2021Silvia Pomella, Prethish Sreenivas, Berkley E. Gryder, Long Wang, David Milewski, Matteo Cassandri, Kunal Baxi, Nicole R. Hensch, Elena Carcarino, Young Song, Hsien-Chao Chou, Marielle E. Yohe, Benjamin Z. Stanton, Bruno Amadio, Ignazio Caruana, Cristi …
Nature Communications: Integrated analysis of telomerase enzymatic activity unravels an association with cancer stemness and proliferation (Zheng Lab)
January 12, 2021Nighat Noureen, Shaofang Wu, Yingli Lv, Juechen Yang, W. K. Alfred Yung, Jonathan Gelfond, Xiaojing Wang, Dimpy Koul, Andrew Ludlow & Siyuan Zheng Abstract Active telomerase is essential for stem cells and most ca …
Emily Selig of Libich Lab, Awarded a Spot on CPRIT Training Grant
January 8, 2021Emily Selig recently earned her Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she was employing biophysical and biochemical approaches to investigate the mechanisms by which the small heat-shock proteins aB-crystallin and h …
Yahoo Finance: Greehey CCRI Deputy Director, Manjeet Rao, Ph.D. to Present at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
December 8, 2020This year’s conference will feature an oral presentation by Manjeet Rao, Ph.D., about a possible FDA-approved anti-depressant being studied that may block breast cancer growth by preventing breast cancer cells from repairing themselves. Dr. Rao has bee …
Nature Communications: Integrative transcriptome and chromatin landscape analysis reveals distinct epigenetic regulations in human memory B cells (Pertsemlidis)
November 16, 2020Justin B. Moroney, Anusha Vasudev, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Hong Zan & Paolo Casali Abstract Memory B cells (MBCs) are long-lived and produce high-affinity, generally, class-switched antibodies. Here, we use a multiparameter approach involving CD27 …
Argonne National Laboratory: Hide and Seek: Understanding How COVID-19 Evades Detection in a Human Cell (Gupta)
November 3, 2020BY ANDRE SALLES |OCTOBER 29, 2020 Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source have discovered new insights into the ways the SARS-CoV-2 virus camouflages itself inside the human body. Scientists around the world have been working for months to identify …
Cell Reports: GDF6-CD99 Signaling Regulates Src and Ewing Sarcoma Growth
November 3, 2020Fuchun Zhou (1), David J.Elzi (1, 2), Panneerselvam Jayabal(1), Xiuye Ma(1), Yu-Chiao Chiu (1) Yidong Chen 1,3,4) Barron Blackman(1) Susan T.Weintraub (4, 5) Peter J.Houghton 1,4,6) Yuzuru Shiio (1,4,5,7) Highlights The autocrine signaling mediated by …
ECancer Interview: Prospective validation of single mouse testing by the paediatric preclinical testing consortium (Houghton)
October 24, 2020Dr. Peter Houghton speaks to ecancer about the prospective validation of single mouse testing by the pediatric preclinical testing consortium; a study that was presented at ENA 2020 this year. Dr. Houghton initially explains the rationale behind this s …
MedicalXpress – One Mouse at a Time: a New Approach to Testing Potential Drugs for Children’s Cancers (Houghton, Kurmasheva, PPTC)
October 22, 2020by European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer A team of researchers in the US and Australia have developed a way of testing potential drugs for children’s cancers so as to take account of the wide genetic diversity of these diseases. In …