There are many, often life-threatening, rare/orphan diseases for which there are few or no therapeutic options. They individually affect few people, but collectively impose very high social and economic burdens. New approaches are bringing big pharma resources to solving the problem through drug repositioning of approved drugs. Advances are being spurred by public and private partnerships, gove...

The Soviet communist regime had devastating consequences on the state of Russian twentieth century science. Country Communist leaders promoted Trofim Lysenko--an agronomist and keen supporter of the inheritance of acquired characters--and the Soviet government imposed a complete ban on the practice and teaching of genetics, which it condemned as a "bourgeois perversion". Russian science, which ...

This centennial view is, of course, a personal one; as students, each of us comes to identify and admire certain scientific heroes/heroines and their experiments as we traverse the microbial terrain. Experiments that we perform today have roots. So, in this brief view from what we now believe to be the lofty vantage point of 1999, I would like to share with you some discoveries that I believe w...

I found this book to be very good. Even though the book did not contain any surprising scientific statements nor outright astonishing discoveries it was nether the less very interesting read. It contained a lot of interesting examples and overviews of experiments in order to illustrate the situations. It managed to explain in a very logical way how our intuition works – something that is seemin...

It is an honor to become a part of the talented group of cell biologists who have received this award before me. While running a research group certainly has its ups and downs, I love being a faculty member and am continuously excited by the prospect of scientific discoveries yet to be made. I have benefited from the support of many people over the years and hope to be able to do the same for o...

Cancer genetics and genomics are rapidly evolving, with new discoveries emerging in genetic mutations, variants, genomic sequencing, risk-reduction methods, and targeted therapies. To educate patients and families, state-of-the-art care requires nurses to understand terminology, scientific and technological advances, and pharmacogenomics. Clinical application of cancer genetics and genomics inv...

The Departments of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in Kansas City and Wichita are passionate about healthy communities and are committed to improving the health of people through teaching, research and service. Our faculty, which includes physicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, and research scientists, conduct research and work in the community to harness public health and scienti...