Case in point: A team of our kidney researchers has made a surprising discovery about how the heart forms. They've found that the heart's inner lining is produced by the same stem cells that produce blood. So these busy little multitaskers make both the blood and part of the organ…
J. Julius Zhu, PhD, has come up with a new technique that will let one cancer lab do the work of dozens. Research that would have taken 10 years can now be done in three months. Best of all, the technique isn't just for cancer research -- it's useful for…
That's right, cigarettes. We're replacing people's cigarettes with ... more cigarettes. But there's a good reason. As I told you about earlier, Aaron Yao, PhD, of our Department of Public Health Sciences and the UVA Cancer Center, is on a crusade against cancer in Appalachia. Smoking rates there remain terribly…
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Elias and his team. Their use of focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor, the most common movement disorder, has been named a top clinical research achievement of 2016. The Clinical Research Forum presented the honor last night to Dr. Elias and University of Maryland neurologist Paul…
For Mazhar Adli, the little glowing dots dancing about on the computer screen are nothing less than the fulfillment of a dream. Those fluorescent dots, moving about in real time, are set to illuminate our understanding of the human genome, cancer and other genetic diseases in a way never before…
Researchers Alban Gaultier, PhD, and Ioana Marin appeared on Facebook Live to talk about their depression discovery and take audience questions, and I thought you might like to see it. This is really some amazing work. In a nutshell, they determined how chronic mild stress caused depression symptoms in mice,…
