Science Talk

August 24, 2011 — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have helped identify a cellular protein that is critical for infection by the deadly Ebola virus. The study was published in the August 24 online edition of Nature.

August 3, 2011 - New research from scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that centenarians' lifestyle choices have little to no impact on their extreme longevity and healthy aging. The study was published in the August 3 online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

June 8, 2011 - Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a key player in the spread of breast cancer. The findings, published today in the online edition of Nature, identify a critical molecule that helps cancer spread beyond the primary tumor.

February 22, 2011 – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, led by Liise-anne Pirofski, M.D., have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia, which infects 175,000 Americans a year. The study was published in the February 22 online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

December 5, 2010 ─ Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have made an unexpected finding about the method by which certain genes are activated. Contrary to what researchers have traditionally assumed, genes that work with other genes to build protein structures do not act in a coordinated way but instead are turned on randomly. The study was published in the December 5 online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., discusses his research into the critical role the tumor microenvironment plays in modulating cancer behavior. Dr. Pollard was recently awarded the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor for Basic Science in recognition of his research.

September 15, 2010 – Einstein researcher Robert Singer, Ph.D., discusses a breakthrough in microscopy that is allowing scientists to track messenger RNA in living cells in real time. The study, published in the September 15 online edition of Nature, marks a major advance in the use of microscopes for scientific investigation and the findings could lead to treatments for a variety of disorders, such as myotonic dystrophy, in which mRNA gets stuck inside the nucleus of cells. See accompanying release.

Einstein researcher Matthew Levy, Ph.D., who was awarded more than $700,000 from Stand Up To Cancer for his high-risk/high-reward research, discusses cancer research funding and the significance of fundraising programs such as Stand Up To Cancer.

August 19, 2010 — Einstein researcher Sophie Molholm, Ph.D., discusses an autism study that showed an empirical link between multisensory integration and autism. The study, published in the August 19 online edition of Autism Research, could lead to the development of an effective means to evaluate various autism spectrum disorder therapies.

June 3, 2010 — Using sophisticated genetic analysis, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and New York University School of Medicine have published a study indicating that Jews are a widely dispersed people with a common ancestry. The study is published in the June 3 online issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.