(Smithsonian.com) - While anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are quite good at figuring out how and when humans evolved, figuring out why we are the way we are is much more...
In the News
Jun 06, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has begun construction on a $105 million research wing dedicated to the study of ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵhood and family cancers ––...
Four new genes have been added to the growing list of those known to cause increased breast cancer risk when mutated through the efforts of researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute...
ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ Care is one of several prestigious health care systems featured in the article by Thomas H. Lee and Toby Cosgrove, titled "Engaging Doctors in the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ...
Researchers have found that the reduction of a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease is an independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer.
Scientists at the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah (U of U), the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and colleagues have developed a powerful tool called pVAAST that combines...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - With CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1-7) just around the corner, the American Heart Association would like to congratulate the Utah Legislature and Gov...
In the News
May 29, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) - LANDOVER, MD – The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that H. Steven White, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and principal investigator of the National Institutes...
In the News
May 29, 2014
(Science Daily) - Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) - a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - is an independent risk factor for renal and...
It was long assumed that the joining of egg and sperm launched a dramatic change in how and which genes were expressed. Instead, new research shows that totipotency is a...
Mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) could walk less than two weeks following treatment with human stem cells. The finding, which uncovers new avenues for...
Barbara Wirostko, M.D., a clinical adjunct associate professor at the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, saw an opportunity to learn more about glaucoma through using a...
The ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah's M.E. Hartnett, M.D., is organizing and moderating a cross-disciplinary symposium that addresses retinopathy of prematurity: the epidemiology, environmental effects from oxygen and nutrition, stem cell studies...
At this week's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, Jun Yang, Ph.D., will talk with colleagues about her study on PDZD7 (a modifier gene)...