Neuroscience News10/19/04 -- National Science Foundation Award to Enhance Genomic Research
A $477,783 award from the National Science Foundation will enhance the instrumentation at Miami University 's Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (CBFG). Luis Actis, professor of microbiology and CBGF director, and Chris Wood, CBGF coordinator, are co-principal investigators of the major research instrumentation grant. Read more...
10/26/04 -- Retinal Stem Cells Show Promise
A study showing the potential ability of retinal stem cells (RSCs) to treat human retinal diseases includes two Miami University researchers among its authors. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, assistant professor of Zoology, and Jason Spence, doctoral student in Zoology, are among eight scientists in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland who collaborated on the work. Their article, “Facile isolation and the characterization of human retinal stem cells,” is the first report on the successful identification and isolation of human RSCs and is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more...
