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Friday, October 25, 2013
By Sara Reeve [caption id="attachment_1034" align="alignright" width="300"] HEAL program youth members Heriberto Alfaro and Eddie Mendoza chop produce grown in the Proyecto Jardin community garden in Boyle Heights. The program teaches participants how to grow and prepare healthy food in several stages: planting, harvesting and cooking.(Photo/Courtesy Proyecto Jardin)[/caption] Q: Can... Read More »
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Friday, October 25, 2013
By Cristy Lytal USC scientist Qi-Long Ying, PhD, MSc, and a team of researchers have long been searching for biotech’s version of the fountain of youth — ways to encourage embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) to endlessly self-renew, or divide to produce more stem cells. In... Read More »
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Keck Medicine of USC has announced a new partnership with Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Orange County to establish new cancer and oncology services at the Hoag Family Cancer Institute and, eventually, other locations in Orange County. The new Hoag/USC partnership marries Orange County’s largest community cancer program with the... Read More »
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Friday, October 25, 2013
By Sara Reeve [caption id="attachment_1020" align="alignright" width="192"] Actor-comedian Martin Short was the master of ceremonies for the gala.(Photo/Steve Cohn)[/caption] The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has made tremendous advances in the understanding and treatment of cancer during its four decades of existence. At the gala anniversary celebration, “40 Years of... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Cristy Lytal [caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignright" width="300"] Qi-Long Ying and a team of researchers have discovered new ways to encourage human embryonic stem cells like these to self-renew.(Photo/Courtesy Qi-Long Ying)[/caption] USC scientist Qi-Long Ying, PhD, MSc, and a team of researchers have long been searching for biotech’s version of the... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Cristy Lytal Can the same gene prevent and promote cancer? When it comes to liver cancer, the gene that codes for P53, a protein found in humans and many other animals, can indeed do both. In a pair of articles published in Oncogene and the Journal of Hepatology, Qi-Long... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
A group of top government science and technology officials from Vietnam visited USC on Sept. 17, touring the Health Sciences Campus and meeting with researchers. (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway [caption id="attachment_1008" align="alignright" width="229"] Jason Chen and Diana Zhou, both seniors at Diamond Bar High School, part of the Summer High School Advanced Research Program, work on a device they designed and built to measure reaction time. They envision using a form of the device in a... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Alison Trinidad Teenagers who see friends smoking and drinking alcohol in photographs posted on Facebook and MySpace are more likely to smoke and drink themselves, according to a new study. “Our study shows that adolescents can be influenced by their friends’ online pictures to smoke or drink alcohol,” said... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Alison Trinidad Natural killer (NK) cells in the human body can kill and contain viruses and cancerous tumors. A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC describes for the first time how those cells can be manipulated by epigenetics. The discovery, detailed in the Proceedings of... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway A research team co-led by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists is one of five teams to be awarded four-year grants totaling nearly $14 million to study the genomics of disease susceptibility in ethnically diverse populations. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant funds. A... Read More »