News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
“As human beings, we share 99.9% of 3.3 billion base-pairs of DNA,” said Archana Dhasarathy, Ph.D., from her office at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS). “This means that what makes us unique as individuals is only 0.1% of our genome.” The number, which still represents hundreds of millions of base pairs, still […]
Big congratulations to Dan Stone, P.T., D.P.T., assistant professor in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Physical Therapy, and Bappa Ghosh, Ph.D., and Motoki Takaku, Ph.D., from the SMHS Department of Biomedical Sciences, who were winners at the UND Center for Innovation’s Lift-Off Showcase entrepreneurship competition this week. As part of […]
UND Department of Biomedical Sciences researcher Motoki Takaku tackles the reverse engineering of cancer Given his calm voice and reserved demeanor, one might get the impression that the science he was describing was really no big deal. “We realized that in terminally differentiated cells, you can turn them back to the original embryonic stem cells,” […]
The statistics are by now too well-known: one in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Likewise, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among American women. Although prevention and treatment for this and other cancers has come a long way since Pres. Richard […]