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Fruit Flies on Phenobarbital? Sedative Studies Shed Light on How Insects, People Defend Themselves Against Environmental Toxins

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Give them a little Phenobarbital and fruit flies just drop like – well, like flies. University of Utah researchers gave fruit flies, also called Drosophila, tiny sips of water laced with Phenobarbital and found that the sedative causes hundreds of genes involved in detoxification to switch on and off. They also identified a protein that plays an essential role in this insect detoxification response.

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March 25, 2011

Research to Stem Hospital Infections Bring Together Three Major Utah Health-Care Systems

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A team of Utah-based investigators has been selected to join the Prevention Epicenter grant program sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The purpose of this program is to develop and test innovative approaches to reduce infections in health-care settings. The new “Utah Epicenter,” called the Intermountain Center of Excellence for Infection Prevention Strategies (INTERCEPT), represents a collaboration between the University of Utah and three integrated health-care delivery systems: University Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, and the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. INTERCEPT is one of only five national sites funded through this program.

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March 25, 2011

U of U to Participate in Limb Regeneration Research

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If salamanders and newts can regenerate a severed limb, why can’t humans? That’s the question University of Utah researcher Shannon Odelberg, Ph.D., is trying to answer as part of a $3.7 million multi-center research program funded by the government’s Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). The research could one day benefit patients with major tissue loss–including U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The University of Pittsburgh is the lead center on the study but Odelberg is available to explain his research in the context of the study and its potential benefit to humans.

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March 25, 2011

U of U Commencement on May 5 to Graduate More than 7,300

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Commencement ceremonies at the University of Utah will be held on Friday, May 5, at 9 a.m., in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The class of 2006, comprised of 7,332 graduates, will receive degrees that morning. The procession of diverse students, who come from 66 countries, 50 U.S. states and 25 of Utah’s 29 counties, will begin at 8:20 a.m. Guests should plan to be in their seats prior to 8:30 a.m. Tickets are not required.

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March 25, 2011

U of U W.D. Goodwill Initiatives Aid Older Adults

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University of Utah College of Social Work students in the Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) program have been assisting Salt Lake City resident Thelma Roberson, 87, for more than a year. Roberson lives alone and because all of her family lives in different cities, she needs help maintaining her home and property. NHN students vacuum for Roberson weekly and have cleaned her yard and washed and painted her living room.

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March 25, 2011