Proteins: are essential nutrients for the human body. They are one of the building blocks of body tissue and can also serve as a fuel source. As a fuel, proteins provide as much energy density as carbohydrates: 4 kcal per gram; in contrast, lipids provide 9 kcal per gram.
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DATE: March 31, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET HER2-positive breast cancer is a type of breast cancer caused by over-expression of a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2...
DATE: March 27, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Osteoporosis causes a decrease in bone density, along with deterioration of the bone’s microarchitecture at a faster rate than normal...
Learning Objectives: 1. Introduce the audience to a general overview of bacterial and fungal contamination 2. Identify areas in the growing and manufacturing industries to monitor for bacter...
DATE: March 18, 2020 TIME: 6:30am PT, 9:30am ET Presentation: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine: the Next Frontier of Light Microscopy Dr. Wei Min, Columbia University www.columbia.edu/cu/che...
DATE: March 17, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET Introduced more than 30 years ago, stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy has raised to a standard and widely used method for imagin...
Identifying the diversity of neuronal cell types of the nervous system is one of the main objectives of the BRAIN Initiative, with the vision that distinct neuronal identities will allow for...
Neurodegenerative disease research can be considerably accelerated by using fibrillar or oligomeric constructs of prion-like proteins in in vitro or in vivo studies. These exist in a variety...
Learning is often an emotional process. Emotional stimuli with different valences, such as threat and reward, can transform an otherwise neutral sensory input into one that can trigger disti...
The accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid beta peptides and/or neurofibrillary tangle formation are key pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including but not limited to Alzheim...