Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Sep 13, 2014

New Nanomedicine Improves Stem Cell Therapy, May Help Regenerate Healthy Heart Tissue

Stem cell transplantation is a promising strategy for therapeutic cardiac regeneration, but current therapies are limited by inefficient interaction between potentially beneficial cells (either exogenously transplanted or endogenously recruited) and the injured tissue. 

Jun 2, 2014

NC State Research Team Finds Neural Transplant Reduces Absence Epilepsy Seizures in Mice

Epilepsies are debilitating neurological disorders characterized by repeated episodes of  pathological seizure activity. Absence epilepsy (AE) is a poorly understood type of seizure with an estimated 30% of affected patients failing to respond to antiepileptic drugs. Thus, novel therapies are needed for the treatment of AE. A promising cellbased therapeutic strategy is centered on transplantation… 

Nov 18, 2013

Arnold Brody Participates in Signing for Re-released Book

What are science’s greatest discoveries? Arnold Brody, an adjunct professor of molecular biomedical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and co-author David Eliot Brody, a lawyer, wrote about the science that changed the world in their 1997 book “The Science Class You Wish You Had: The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the… 

Dec 14, 2012

NC State Toxicology Professor Heads NAS Review of Lead Standards for Military Firing Ranges

David Dorman, a professor of toxicology in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at NC State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, led a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee in a one-year study that found current federal guidelines are insufficient to protect individuals at Defense Department firing ranges and other sites from a list of aliments… 

Sep 5, 2012

CVM Neurobiologist Maps Areas of the Brain Associated with Affective Aggression in Mice

A North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine researcher has created a roadmap to areas of the brain associated with affective aggression in mice. This roadmap may be the first step toward finding therapies for humans suffering from affective aggression disorders that lead to impulsive violent acts. Affective aggression differs from defensive aggression or… 

Jun 15, 2012

NC State CVM Researcher Investigates Anti-Resistant Pathogens in Swine Herds

Sid Thakur is an expert on the kinds of pathogens that like to make their homes in and around our pig populations. He spends most of his time testing the pigs and their environment, identifying potential dangers such as Campylobacter – a nasty little critter that we definitely don’t want in our food supply, particularly… 

Feb 23, 2012

NC State Researcher Tracks Cellular Mechanisms that Lead to Pulmonary Fibrosis

The following originally appeared in Results, a publication of NC State University’s Research, Innovation and Economic Development Program.  As a marathon runner, Dr. Phil Sannes knows the value of strong, healthy lungs. As a professor in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and a researcher with the   Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational… 

Feb 1, 2012

CVM Cell Biologist Discusses Advances in Respiratory Disease Research in TEDx Presentation

Dr. Kenneth Adler, professor of cell biology at the NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, has spent more than three decades investigating diseases of respiratory airways and the problem of excess mucus production—a condition that ranges from annoying in a cold to deadly in cystic fibrosis. A top-ranked biomedical scientist, Dr. Adler discussed his work… 

Jul 7, 2009

CCMTR-led Research Team Seeking Brain Tumor Gene

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that a gene commonly believed to be involved in meningiomas—tumors that… 

Apr 15, 2008

Dr. Breen Published in Journal of Chromosome Research

Cancer researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Minnesota have found that humans and dogs share more than friendship and companionship – they also share the same genetic basis for certain types of cancer. Furthermore, the researchers say that because of the way the genomes have evolved, getting cancer may be inevitable…