Publications of the Week Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Acquisition and Depletion Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection Leung, V. and Manges, A.R., et al. | October 26, 2017 Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) may be a novel approach to eliminate multidrug-resistant bacteria from the…sciencecityOctober 26, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: Emerging Targets in Cancer Immunotherapy Burugu, S. and Nielsen, T.O., et al. | October 25, 2017 The first generation of immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1/PD-L1) targeted natural immune homeostasis pathways,…sciencecityOctober 25, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Multi-Target-Directed Phenol-Triazole Ligands as Therapeutic Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease Jones, M.R. and Storr, T., et al. | October 23, 2017 This work was spearheaded by a former graduate student Michael Jones (5th from left) who…sciencecityOctober 23, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Self-Biotinylation of DNA G-Quadruplexes via Intrinsic Peroxidase Activity Einarson, O.J. and Sen, D. | October 20, 2017 The striking and ubiquitous in vitro affinity between hemin and DNA/RNA G-quadruplexes raises the intriguing…sciencecityOctober 20, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Selective Aggregation of the Splicing Factor Hsh155 Suppresses Splicing upon Genotoxic Stress Mathew, V. and Stirling, P.C., et al. | October 18, 2017 When a cell responds to DNA damage it must coordinate DNA repair with changes in…sciencecityOctober 18, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Conserved and Unique Features of the Fission Yeast Core Atg1 Complex Nanji, T. and Yip, C.K., et al. | October 17, 2017 Much of the published studies have focused on the Atg1 complex from budding yeast Saccharomyces…sciencecityOctober 17, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week Successful Targeting of the NRG1 Pathway Indicates Novel Treatment Strategy for Metastatic Cancer Jones, M.R. and Laskin, J., et al. | October 12, 2017 Oncogenic gene fusions involving Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) have been described as recurrent aberrations in lung…sciencecityOctober 12, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week CD56bright NK Regulatory Cells in Filgrastim Primed Donor Blood or Marrow Products Regulate Chronic GvHD: CBMTG Randomized 0601 Study Results Kariminia, A. and Schultz, K.R., et al. | October 10, 2017 his is a major Canadian study performed by the Canadian BMT Group and including centres…sciencecityOctober 10, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, and Therapeutic Targets Leung, J.M. and Sin, D.D. | October 9, 2017 Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) or asthma-COPD overlap captures the subset of patients with airways disease…sciencecityOctober 9, 2017 Read More
Publications of the Week REVIEW: When Beta Cells Talk Back Denroche, H.C. and Verchere, C.B., et al. | October 5, 2017 Islet macrophages reside in the perivascular space next to islet blood vessels. They are long-lived…sciencecityOctober 5, 2017 Read More