Dr. Gary Owens and his team are providing us with new insights into atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries. It's amazing to see how new discovery begets new discovery.
Call it a victory for fresh perspectives: We've had some undergraduate biomedical students bring their engineering expertise to the hospital, and they've come up with some great ideas for improving how hospitals provide care.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $23 million to the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia to accelerate the development of new treatments and cures.
UPDATE: The University of Michigan came out on top with a potential treatment for tinnitus. Congrats to them and to the Kipnis team for a great performance!
Our Timothy Bullock, PhD, and his team have discovered a defect in immune cells known as “killer T cells” that explains why they struggle to destroy cancer tumors. By fixing this defect, scientists could make the cells much better at killing cancer cells.
Now we may know why specific brain cells die in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.