Poster Quick Takes: New Tool Lets Scientists Easily Profile Difficult Glycans

While World War II raged, engineers and tradespeople built up a little airport that’d sat humbly on the outskirts of Frederick since 1929, transforming it into a microbiological research facility. The site, renamed “Camp Detrick,” was to be the home of the new U.S. Army Biowarfare Research Laboratories. This is where the story of the NCI Frederick Scientific Library truly begins.

Experts across scientific fields will convene at Hood College in Frederick, MD, from June 16–18 for the fourth Life Sciences Symposium, aiming to ameliorate the so-called “reproducibility crisis” in research. The three-day symposium is intended to devise and drive solutions to reproducibility issues in biomedical sciences.

Tools developed by chemists at NCI Frederick have at last made it possible to see how some of the most common molecules affect cells’ behavior in cancer and disease. Studying these molecules, glycans, because they can’t directly be sequenced, has been challenging. New research from NCI Frederick’s Chemical Biology Laboratory (CBL) may make it easier.

The Recreation and Welfare Club Frederick (R&WCF) is hosting an exclusive membership evening at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in downtown Frederick, MD.

A study originating in NCI Frederick’s RNA Biology Laboratory has clarified why cells pack up and discard a certain type of RNA. Put simply, it’s a trash removal system meant to keep cells stable—and it’s relevant to cancer growth. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, came by examining the RNAs within extracellular vesicles.