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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The benefits of doing research on a university campus
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2016-11-08 18:00:00
	Description:		We interview a lot of researchers at the University of California, and one thing we hear about a lot is how beneficial it is for researchers to have students and interdisciplinary faculty at their fingertips. Biomedical scientist Gabriela Loots of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is no exception. Loots and her team found that a specific protein inhibits prostate cancer metastasis to the bone and says collaboration has been crucial in this work. "Around 2005, I started interacting with scientists at UC Merced and then I was interested in having a more formal affiliation with them in the Qualitative Biology Program. And so now I have graduate students who will rotate in my laboratory. And it’s been working out great. So with the UC Davis Cancer Center, we have started interacting with some of the scientists there because of my interest in prostate cancer and now we’re growing to other types of cancer research. And so we just started communicating with some of these scientists and we started collaborating." Their current research may lead to better prevention and treatment of aggressive forms of prostate cancer that spread to the bone.
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