growth factor

Optimizing organoid growth using pure, highly active, and consistent growth factors.

A peptide found in bull ant venom closely resembles a hormone of its primary predator, triggering hypersensitivity and making subsequent bites even more painful than the ones that came before.

A growth factor found in the cerebrospinal fluid of young mice triggered the proliferation of myelin-making cells when injected into the brains of older mice.

In this workshop, you will learn how to optimally culture organoids and support their growth after genetic manipulation.

A study offers a new explanation for how exercise strengthens bones and the immune system.

Watch Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini tell the story of how she continued her transformative cell biology research as World War II raged.

Neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini began her Nobel Prize–winning work in a makeshift laboratory in Italy during the Second World War.

A growth factor treatment helps improve cardiac functioning after heart attack in pigs.

Normal hair growth can lead to infection during cancer treatment.

Increased collagen expression is a common feature of many different pathways to extended longevity in worms.

Intact growth hormone signaling pathways are needed for methionine restriction to extend mouse lifespan.

Researchers pinpoint a gene enhancer that contributes to blond locks in humans.

In the long-fought battle against baldness, researchers are finally identifying molecular pathways that can be manipulated to generate new hair follicles.

The award ceremony will take place in Toronto on October 23; the winners will divide the foundation's largess, which totals $220,000 Canadian.

All the winners have published work that has been highly cited by their peers.