A brand new approach to treating severe nerve pain – by aiming drugs at a previously unrecognized molecular target – has been discovered by University of Utah scientists who study the venoms of deadly, sea-dwelling cone snails.
Read MoreResearchers led by a University of Utah medicinal chemist have developed a novel method to make drugs for cancer and other diseases from bacteria found in sponges and other small ocean creatures.
Read MoreIn a finding with significant ramifications for developing drugs to prevent dangerous blood clots, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have identified an unsuspected mechanism that triggers key blood cells to form clots.
Read MoreA protein that promotes nerve and blood vessel growth will be tested in mice as part of $2.7 million in grants University of Utah School of Medicine researchers just received to study diabetes.
Read MoreIt’s a case of miscommunication with catastrophic consequences. Two human blood cells that help fight blood loss, infection, and inflammation are responsible as well for starting a series of molecular events that results in overproduction of Cox-2, an enzyme involved in heart attack, stroke, atherosclerosis, and other inflammatory diseases.
Read MoreYihua (Bruce) Yu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, has received the U.S. government’s highest award for promising independent researchers in the early stages of a career.
Read MoreA widely acclaimed physician-ethicist will introduce 102 aspiring doctors to the weighty ethical and spiritual aspects of their future profession at this year’s White Coat Ceremony for the University of Utah School of Medicine”s freshman class.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has been awarded a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to buy the school’s first small-animal magnetic resonance imaging scanner (MRI).
Read MoreUniversity of Utah scientists have shown how evolution works by reversing the process, reconstructing a 530-million-year-old gene by combining key portions of two modern mouse genes that descended from the archaic gene.
Read MorePediatrician and medical ethics expert Jeffrey Botkin, who is the University of Utah’s associate vice president for research integrity, has been named to a federal panel that works to protect humans who are the subjects of scientific and medical research.
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