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Neuroscience researchers at UChicago receive $3.4 million NIH grant to...
Nathan Copeland, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident, controls a prosthetic arm and hand at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. (Photo courtesy of Pitt/UPMC) A team of...
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Data analysis uncovers differences in drug prescription rates in the U.S.
A new analysis of prescription rates of 600 commonly-used drugs across the United States reveals influences of racial composition, state-level health care laws, and wealth on prescription choices. The...
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Scientists create flies with ancient genes to study the evolution of...
Above, early fly embryo stained for three Bcd target genes, Otd (light blue), Hb (dark blue), and Kr (red). Image courtesy of Rhea Datta. Scientists at New York University and the University of Chicago...
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RNA splicing plays major role in genetic variation linked to Alzheimer’s...
Over the past decade, genetic sequencing tools have been very successful at identifying variations in the human genome that are associated with traits such as height or complex conditions like...
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Men with HPV are 20 times more likely to be reinfected after one year
Human papilloma virus (Image by Jean-Yves Sgro, virology.wisc.edu/virusworld) A new analysis of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) in men shows that infection with one HPV type strongly increases the...
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Amputees can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds
Nicho Hatsopoulos in his robotics lab at the University of Chicago (Photo: Jean Lachat) A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm...
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What does it mean to be social? For science, a new definition
Rats display what looks like a human version of empathy–or are we both acting on the same social impulses? Think about the last time you called it a night, ordered takeout and spent some quality time...
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Wider sampling of tumor tissues may guide drug choice, improve outcomes
A new study focused on describing genetic variations within a primary tumor, differences between the primary and a metastatic branch of that tumor, and additional diversity found in tumor DNA in the...
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Novel approach could limit common complications of immunotherapy
By connecting highly effective cancer immunotherapy drugs such as anti-CTLA4 (ipilimumab) and anti-PD-L1 (atezolizumab) to peptides that bind to tissues in and around tumors, a research team based at...
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How a “flipped” gene helped butterflies evolve mimicry
Several different swallowtail butterfly variations showing mimicry and polymorphism, or different forms of the same species. In the center, a female Papilio polytes that mimics another species that is...
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Flu forecasting tool uses evolution to make earlier predictions
Each year, public health officials monitor the spread of influenza to identify which flu strains need to go into that year’s vaccines and where outbreaks will occur. But it can be difficult to predict...
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Curbing that craving: how anti-smoking drugs help kick the habit
Photo: chris vaughan, Flickr In 1964, the United States Surgeon General issued a report that suggested a relationship between smoking cigarettes and poor health outcomes. Despite an overwhelming...
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Slight genetic changes can limit production of Alzheimer’s disease plaques
Amyloid deposits (highlighted in yellow) in a transgenic mouse brain One of the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease is the buildup of “plaques” or clumps of proteins in the brain that damage nerve...
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Globus expands data services to accelerate secure cancer research
With a $4.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the University of Chicago’s Globus and leading cancer researchers at University of Chicago Medicine will build new protected cancer...
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How the brain reads body language to help people work together
Embed from Getty Images In sports, a team is said to have good “chemistry” when they play well together and get along on and off the court. Players who have played with each other for a long time can...
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What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the...
Horned Larks collected in Illinois between 1904 and 1916 (left) and California and British Columbia between 1903 and 1922 (right). (Photo: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay) Horned Larks are cute songbirds...
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Sensory loss can be a warning sign of poor health outcomes, including death
“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It A...
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It’s a cinch: Multiplication by division via the actomyosin ring
The contractile actomyosin ring, illuminated in the center of these yeast cells, is a belt-like structure that (most) dividing cells assemble at the center during the final stage of cell division. It...
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From molecule to medicine: pursuing insight and new treatment for Alzheimer’s...
Postdoctoral Scholar Myles Minter, PhD, and Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD, Director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology For a new drug to become a medicine, the process is long and expensive. The...
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New research provides detailed look at how epileptic seizures are sustained
Credit: CC by A DigitalRalph New research from the University of Chicago Medicine provides a more detailed look at how epileptic seizures are sustained and how, in turn, physicians might learn to stop...
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