Word: neurobiologist
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...what shocked me about reading my application to Harvard was how astonishingly little I’ve changed. The young, “gentle” budding-neurobiologist with interests in newspaper writing and music who walked into Matthews Hall three years ago looks pretty similar today, except the gentle part, which Harvard has slowly molded into skepticism and acid...
...able to beat back the disease. What's more, the benefits may not be limited to Parkinson's but may also be used to treat Huntington's, Lou Gehrig's and even Alzheimer's disease--all of which have similar neurodegenerative roots and may respond to similar drugs. Says neurobiologist Michael Zigmond of the University of Pittsburgh: "A breakthrough in any of these diseases could have an impact on the others...
Identified by neurobiologist Harald Sontheimer, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chlorotoxin targets glioma cells and blocks their fluid-balancing chloride channels, preventing them from shrinking and then migrating elsewhere in the brain. Sontheimer's group is about to submit a clinical-trial protocol to the FDA. If approved, as many as 30 glioma patients could begin receiving chlorotoxin tagged with radioactive iodine as early as July. If the strategy works, Sontheimer says, "chlorotoxin could become a platform for delivering all sorts of drugs...
...disease. What’s more, the benefits may not be limited to Parkinson’s, but may also be used to treat Huntinton’s, Lou Gehrig’s and even Alzheimer’s disease-all of which have similar neurochemical roots and could respond to similar drugs. Says neurobiologist Michael Zigmond of the University of Pittsburgh: "A breakthrough in any of these diseases could have an impact on the others...
Until Fred Gage came along, brain scientists accepted as a matter of faith that the neurons, or brain cells, you were born with were all the brain cells you would ever have. Then, two years ago, this 49-year-old neurobiologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., showed in a groundbreaking experiment that neurons are constantly being born, particularly in the learning and memory centers. Gage's discovery forced scientists to rethink some of their most basic ideas about how the brain works...