Dr. Megan Spurgeon (left) and Dr. Paul Lambert (right) McArdle researchers have developed a model of papillomavirus sexual transmission using the recently discovered murine (mouse) papillomavirus. This new model finally allows research on areas of …
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Saturday Science at Discovery with McArdle
Dr. Megan Spurgeon, Associate Scientist, teaching about the link between viruses and cancer at Saturday Science at Discovery. On Saturday, September 14th, volunteers from the McArdle Laboratory and the Institute for Molecular Virology teamed up …
Kenney laboratory receives three federal grants in one year
Dr. Shannon Kenney Receiving three federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within a year is nearly unheard of in the research world, but not for Dr. Shannon Kenney who was awarded two …
Contributions to Cancer Research
1939 Harold P. Rusch showed that a high-fat or high-calorie diet accelerated the production of cancer in mice. 1940 McArdle Laboratory was established as the first basic cancer research facility in an academic institution in the …
McArdle researchers suggest that skin might be more important to metabolic diseases than we think
Researchers Caroline Alexander (left) and Ildiko Kasza (right). Recent discoveries from Caroline Alexander and Ildiko Kasza suggest that skin might be a more important player in metabolism than previously understood. Loss of heat through skin, …
Paul Ahlquist speaks on new approach to life-saving antivirals
Paul Ahlquist speaking in the video on broad-spectrum antivirals and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Dr. Paul Ahlquist speaks about our constant fight against emerging viruses in a video and article originally posted by the …
Popular “Revisionist History” podcast explores groundbreaking retrovirology work by McArdle Nobel Laureate Howard Temin
Howard Temin, photo from the Nobel Foundation archive “Throughout the 1970s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He …
Celebrating Don Fechner’s 90th birthday; a McArdle treasure
Left to right: Don Fechner, Karen Schwarz, and Richard Burgess at Don’s 90th birthday celebration on Sunday, August 18, 2019. Don Fechner turned 90 years on September 11, 2019. McArdlites who shared any time at …
McArdle’s Aussie Suzuki develops new optimized super-resolution microscopy method
Unequal segregation of chromosomes during cell division is called aneuploidy and can contribute to cancer (left). Aussie Suzuki uses his optimized microscopy method to map out the kinetochore proteins that have an important role in …
Rare blood cancer can now be studied with McArdle Laboratory discovery
Aurélia Faure, the paper’s first author, holding cell cultures. Primary Effusion Lymphomas (PELs) are a highly aggressive blood cancer found in immunosuppressed individuals, such as people living with HIV, that researchers have long struggled to …