New post from NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

The Latest Post On the RISE: Joshua and Caleb Marceau Use NIGMS Grant to Jump-Start Their Research Careers  Brothers Joshua and Caleb Marceau grew up on a farm on the Flathead Indian Reservation in rural northwestern Montana. Despite their innate love of learning and science, college seemed out of reach. The Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program sponsored by NIGMS and other scholarship and mentoring opportunities led them from a local tribal college to advanced degrees in biomedical sciences. Continue reading In Case You Missed It A Scientist's Exploration of Regeneration At the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine, Voot Yin studied molecules important for coordinating regeneration in zebrafish, salamanders, and a ray-finned fish from Africa called the bichir. He found similar genetic mechanisms in mice and humans, suggesting that regeneration ability in mice and humans may lie dormant, ready to be awakened with the right signal. Continue reading