“Sleep is one of the great biological mysteries—each night we disconnect ourselves from the world for 7 or 8 hours, a state that leaves us vulnerable and unproductive,” explained Oxford’s Dr. Gero Miesenböck in an NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series lecture held recently. “Despite these risks and costs, we do not know what sleep is good for.”
Diseases of excess growth hormone, such as gigantism and acromegaly, may initially present with a variety of signs and symptoms, including diabetes, said Dr. Andrew Demidowich during a recent Grand Rounds lecture in Lipsett Amphitheater.
Director of NIDCR’s Office of Communications, Boehm did a 3-month stint abroad last year as part of the International Experience & Technical Assistance (IETA) program that is run by CDC’s Center for Global Health.
Jesus Garces-Soto and his wife Lyssette Santiago never expected to travel from Puerto Rico to NIH. In 2013, Garces-Soto underwent an operation for bladder cancer in Puerto Rico.
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RNA incorporated into the CRISPR surveillance complex is positioned to scan across foreign DNA. Cryo-EM density from a 3Å reconstruction is shown as a yellow mesh.
Photo: National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy