Certain drugs used to combat HIV also inhibit a retrovirus recently linked to prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a new study from University of Utah and Emory University/Veterans Affair Medical Center (VA) researchers shows.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Utah and other institutions have sequenced for the first time the entire genome of a family, enabling them to accurately estimate the average rate at which parents pass genetic mutations to their offspring and also identify precise locations where parental chromosomes exchange information that creates new combinations of genetic traits in their children.
Read MoreNorman Foster, M.D., who established the University of Utah’s Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research, will be honored for his research and clinical innovations when he receives the ALEXA Award from the Utah Alzheimer’s Association on Saturday, March 6.
Read MoreWomen’s health is the focus of this year’s Women’s Week celebration at the University of Utah with the theme, “The Full Scope: Magnifying Women’s Health.” The celebration takes place March 10-16. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreAn international team of researchers has found that adding a humanized monoclonal antibody called daclizumab to standard treatment reduces the number of new or enlarged brain lesions in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. This new study was published online Feb. 16, 2010, and in the March edition of The Lancet Neurology.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers led an international team of scientists that is the first to report on the previously undescribed ability of platelets to reproduce themselves in the circulation. Their revolutionary findings were published online ahead of print, Jan. 19, 2010, in the journal Blood.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago.
Read MoreHow do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do – by eating a diet that’s too rich in fats.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Alumni Association will celebrate Founders Day, which commemorates the founding of the University of Utah in 1850, at a banquet on Wednesday, February 24, at the Little America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. Honoring individuals who have distinguished themselves professionally and personally, the event will acknowledge alumni Larry D. Gluth, M. Elizabeth Hale Hammond, Fred Lampropoulos, and Robert Alan McDonald for their outstanding achievements. Also recognized as an Honorary Alumna will be Marta Sutton Weeks-Wulf.
Read MoreThree University of Utah Department of Psychiatry researchers are part of an international team of scientists that has identified a novel region of the human genome that may confer susceptibility to autism.
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