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The emerging links between diabetes and chemicals in the environment
When Rob Sargis, an endocrinologist at the University of Chicago, talks about his research on metabolism, obesity, and diabetes, he makes it clear what he’s really trying to understand. “Diabetes is...
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High-tech analysis of proto-mammal fossil clarifies the mammalian family tree
Haramiyavia clemmenseni. The CT reconstructed jaw of its fossil is superimposed on the bottom illustration. Credit: April Neander The stereotypical picture of mammals during the age of the dinosaurs...
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A Funny Fish Feeding Finding: Largemouth Bass Eat with Their Backs
When a largemouth bass spies a tiny, edible fish, he opens his mouth wide and sucks his prey into gaping jaws. You’d think that the fish’s mouth would be the most important part of creating that...
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New test may improve diagnosis and treatment of pancreatobiliary cancer
An ultrasound-guided endoscope and a small needle takes blood from the portal vein during routine diagnostic endoscopiesBy collecting samples from the portal vein—which carries blood from the...
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The art and science of funding research
A proposal writing workshop led by experienced faculty members helped postdoctoral fellow Eun Ji Chung, PhD, win an NIH career development award after being turned down the first time around. Chung is...
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The software that will give scientists a better view of metagenomic data
Visualization from the anvi’o software tool showing metagenomic data from the infant gut microbiome (Eren, et al, PeerJ) In 2014, A. Murat Eren, PhD, who goes by Meren, had the beginnings of a...
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Genes that increase breast cancer risk also tied to risk of leukemia after...
Jane Churpek, MD (Robert Kozloff/The University of Chicago) A new analysis, published early online Dec. 7, 2015, in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, points to...
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How skates and rays got their wings
The evolution of the striking, wing-like pectoral fins of skates and rays relied on repurposed genes, according to new research by scientists from the University of Chicago. Studying embryonic skates,...
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Food, not light, sets the bacterial circadian clock
Growing cyanobacteria displaying their circadian rhythms, which have been artificially coupled to the expression of yellow fluorescent protein. Most organisms on Earth, from bacteria to humans,...
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The bacteria that make work easier for crime scene investigators everywhere
Typical scene from the TV series Bones on Fox. This is one of the least gory pictures we could find. (©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Mathieu Young/FOX) Thanks to the modern TV viewer’s enthusiasm for...
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Possible trigger of multiple sclerosis discovered
De-myelinated neurons form a dark lesion (center) in a patch of otherwise healthy neurons (green). Image by Maria Traka. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of mistaken identity that affects some 2.5...
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UChicago Medicine biobank helps peg new human virus
Physicians Andrew Aronsohn, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (left) and Donald M. Jensen, MD, retired Professor of Medicine and former director, Center for Liver Diseases. (Photo by Shahzad Ahsan)...
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A single, billion-year-old mutation helped multicellular animals evolve
Developing embryos. Credit: Wakayama et al., PLoS 2009. In the history of life on Earth, few events were as significant as the evolution of multicellular animals from single-celled ancestors. This was...
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Individuals with rage disorder have smaller volumes in brain areas linked to...
The Kennedy Expressway is the most congested highway in the US. On any given afternoon on the Kennedy Expressway, there are bound to be incidents of road rage – explosive, sometimes violent outbursts...
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Learning how the brain learns
Humans are exquisitely able to sort things that we see into categories: houses, trees, grass, people, faces, etc. When our visual categorization abilities are confused, by optical illusions for...
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Rising star in microbiome research focuses on basics in the lab
Taylor Feehley (left) with Cathryn Nagler, PhD Taylor Feehley just defended her PhD thesis on how gut bacteria interact with the immune system, work that someday could help prevent the development of...
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Hooked on a feeling: new study finds fish fins can sense touch
The pictus catfish feels with its pectoral fins, much like how we feel with our fingers. Lightly brush your fingertips across your keyboard. What do you feel? The smoothness of plastic? Ridges, gaps,...
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Are the rates of dementia in the U.S. really falling? And how is education...
The numbers for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are staggering. One in nine adults in the U.S. age 65 and older—more than five million people—has Alzheimer’s. This number is predicted to reach almost...
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Study finds adolescent and young adult blood cancer patients experience...
Nurse Katherine Breitenbach, MSN, APN, NP-BC, (left) and physician Wendy Stock, MD, (right) with Jenn Georges, a patient in the UChicago Medicine Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Program...
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Clot-busting therapy reduces mortality in deadliest form of stroke
Before (left) and after (right) scan of the brain of a CLEAR III patient. A ventricular catheter has been used to administer tPA. The volume of blood from a intraventricular hemorrhage (white-grey mass...
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