IMAGE: Tanya Renner, Penn State
“The study of plants can provide novel solutions for human welfare through improved crops,” said Tanya Renner, assistant professor of entomology at Penn State. “A key challenge is to efficiently select traits and underlying genes that exert similar functions when transferred from a donor plant to a recipient. We believe that some of the genes involved in carnivory such as those involved in digesting insects and in maintaining leaf surfaces that prevent insects from escaping could help to improve pest resistance of crops or create varieties that can grow on increasingly widespread eroded and infertile soils.”
Gizem Ozbaykal-Guler recognised as an ‘outstanding young life-scientist’ through prestigious new Fellowship
Gizem Ozbaykal-Guler recognised as an ‘outstanding young life-scientist’ through prestigious new Fellowship 6 May 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
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The prestigious fellowships are awarded to the world’s most outstanding young life-scientists who have proposed original approaches at the frontier of biological research. Gizem, a post-doctoral research fellow in the Mostowy lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), is one of 63 successful applicants to the latest round of fellowships announced by HFSP in April 2021.
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APRIL 28, 2021, NEW YORK - A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which cancer cells of a relatively benign subtype of pancreatic tumors methodically revert or de-differentiate to a progenitor, or immature, state of cellular development to spawn highly aggressive tumors that are capable of metastasis to the liver and lymph nodes.
The study, led by Ludwig Lausanne s Douglas Hanahan and published in
Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, also shows that engagement of the mechanism is associated with poorer outcomes in patients diagnosed with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs). Further, its findings provide concrete evidence that such cellular de-differentiation, widely observed across cancer types, is a not merely a random consequence of cancer cells other aberrations.
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Ludwig Cancer Research study shows pancreatic cancer cells hit reverse to advance in malignancy
APRIL 28, 2021, NEW YORK – A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which cancer cells of a relatively benign subtype of pancreatic tumors methodically revert-or “de-differentiate”-to a progenitor, or immature, state of cellular development to spawn highly aggressive tumors that are capable of metastasis to the liver and lymph nodes.
The study, led by Ludwig Lausanne’s Douglas Hanahan and published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, also shows that engagement of the mechanism is associated with poorer outcomes in patients diagnosed with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs). Further, its findings provide concrete evidence that such cellular de-differentiation, widely observed across cancer types, is a not merely a random consequence of cancer cells’ other aberrations.
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IMAGE: Researchers are investigating how carnivory-related genes, such as those involved in digestion, could help crops not only avoid pests, but also thrive in low-nutrient environments. Featured here is a type. view more
Credit: Tanya Renner, Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. They won t devour insects with leafy jaws, but with help from carnivorous plant genes, tomatoes, tobacco and other crops could one day better defend themselves from pathogenic fungi and insects. An international team of researchers has received a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to investigate how carnivory-related genes, such as those involved in digestion, could help crops not only avoid pests, but also thrive in low-nutrient environments. Ultimately, the team s goal is to reduce reliance on pesticides and fertilizers.