GCB News

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in February 2021:

COVID-19

Xiling Shen was part of a team that performed RNA sequencing on whole blood samples from 46 individuals with PCR-positive, symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and compared them directly to subjects with other respiratory infections and healthy controls. Read more

Duke scientists John Franklin Rawls, Ph.D., is among 65 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. 

Youth mental-health interventions could prevent physical illness and social costs.

Researchers uncover recent traces of human adaptation in the Cabo Verde islands

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in January 2021:

EWAS & GWAS

Avshalom Caspi and Terri Moffitt were part of a large team that reported the first large meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of aggressive behavior from over 15,000 people from 18 cohorts. Read more

Researchers clean up data to identify the bugs better.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in December 2020:

DISEASE

Doug Marchuk part of a team that investigated the effect of propranolol on the embryonic zebrafish multi-cavernous malformation and on lesion burden and hemorrhage in two murine chronic cerebral cavernous malformation models. Read more

Meet Claire Engstrom, a Senior from Pasadena California. Claire is a Biology major who works in the Gersbach Lab at Duke.

Duke researchers develop new method for enhancing the maturity and functional properties of cell types derived from human stem cells.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in November 2020:

AGING

Restricting calories can improve the healthspan and lifespan of organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. Matt Hirschey was part of a team that used yeast to investigate how the mechanisms involved in caloric restriction could uncover future interventions for aging associated diseases. Read more