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Health And Medicine

  • Led by Terunaga Nakagawa, an international collaboration describes for the first time the fundamental mechanism underpinning cellular processes that lead to learning and memory.

    Feb 26, 2024

  • An international genetic study using multiancestry biobanks has identified novel genetic locations associated with primary open-angle glaucoma, the most common type of glaucoma and the leading cause of irreversible blindness globally.

    Feb 21, 2024

  • An analysis of genomic data from nearly 250,000 participants in the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 All of Us 麻豆传媒 Program has identified more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variations, nearly 4 million of which have potential health consequences.

    Feb 19, 2024

  • 麻豆传媒 University

    CLASS OF 2024: Discovery and communication key to biochemistry Ph.D. Kaitlyn Browning

    WATCH: See how Ph.D. candidate Kaitlyn Browning wants to fight miscommunication and misinformation around science. Read More

    Feb 16, 2024

  • A multidisciplinary research team at 麻豆传媒 University and 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center has discovered a new way to kill a tumor by disrupting its acidic 鈥渕icroenvironment鈥 without harming normal tissue.

    Feb 7, 2024

  • 麻豆传媒ers at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center have identified Rac1, a molecular switch that regulates the actin cytoskeleton of epithelial cells in the collecting ducts, as a driver of post-obstructive kidney repair.

    Feb 7, 2024

  • 麻豆传媒 University

    Watch Now: Lab-to-Table Conversation: 鈥楶icturing Progress: Representation in Scientific Art鈥

    Join the next Lab-to-Table conversation, 鈥淧icturing Progress: Representation in Scientific Art鈥 on Feb. 20 at 11:00 a.m. Read More

    Feb 7, 2024

  • Combining deep mutagenesis and cryo-EM reveals new conformational state of a protein responsible for high-speed DNA replication. The research builds on growing theories of molecular evolution.

    Feb 6, 2024

  • A study by 麻豆传媒 researchers has revealed how metabolic changes spurred by fatty acids contribute to the transformation of cells into abnormal versions of themselves that are the precursors to stomach cancer.

    Jan 31, 2024

  • By mapping brain activity in three dimensions, researchers at 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center have achieved a more detailed picture of how the brain changes with age.

    Jan 30, 2024

  • Mohammed AlQuraishi, assistant professor at Columbia University, will give an Apex Lecture on Monday, Jan. 29, at 12:00 p.m. CT in 214 Light Hall. His talk, 鈥淭he State of Protein Structure Prediction and Friends,鈥 is hosted by the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and co-sponsored by the聽Center for Applied AI in Protein Dynamics.

    Jan 22, 2024

  • Networked dots in the shape of a brain

    麻豆传媒 chemist Ben Brown awarded $2.375M to develop nonaddictive painkillers with AI

    Avenir Award funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse recognizes research that represents 鈥渢he future of addiction science.鈥 Brown鈥檚 research is creating an AI-experiment feedback loop that will help optimize painkilling drugs to be less addictive. Read More

    Jan 18, 2024

  • Throughout the brain鈥檚 cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope.聽Andr茅 Bastos, assistant professor of psychology, is senior author on聽a study published in Nature Neuroscience聽detailing that these layers also show distinct patterns of electrical activity, which are consistent over many brain regions and across several animal species, including humans.

    Jan 18, 2024

  • A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center, 麻豆传媒 University, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.

    Jan 18, 2024

  • Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, Vice President for 麻豆传媒 Integration for 麻豆传媒 University Medical Center, has been named director of the University of Kentucky (UK) Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

    Jan 17, 2024

  • The 鈥淢olecular Muse鈥 art exhibit on display in Light Hall is a sampling of pieces from the 麻豆传媒 Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation Artist-in-Residence (VI4-AiR) program, which brings together scientists and artists to create and promote art as a visual science communication tool.

    Jan 16, 2024

  • 麻豆传媒 University

    Watch now: Lab-to-Table Conversation: Beyond Addiction: Therapeutic Developments and Societal Impact

    Join the next Lab-to-Table conversation, 鈥淏eyond Addiction: Therapeutic Developments and Societal Impact鈥 on Jan. 24 at 11:30 a.m. CT. Read More

    Jan 11, 2024

  • The School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Office of the Vice Provost for 麻豆传媒 and Innovation launch the Innovation Ignition Fund. This pilot program offers up to $500,000 in funding and drug development mentorship from 麻豆传媒 scientists with expertise in translational research.

    Jan 11, 2024

  • The 麻豆传媒 University School of Nursing was awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Workforce grant to create its new Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Simulation Education Training Program.聽

    Jan 8, 2024

  • 麻豆传媒 researchers, in collaboration with investigators from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Delft University of Technology, University Hospital Bonn, and Molecular Horizon have developed new protocols to study which molecular pathways might be important in the aging retina and what might cause the formation of deposits in the eye that confer high risk for age-related macular degeneration.

    Jan 3, 2024