(Smithsonian.com) - While anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are quite good at figuring out how and when humans evolved, figuring out why we are the way we are is much more...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has begun construction on a $105 million research wing dedicated to the study of childhood and family cancers ––...
Four new genes have been added to the growing list of those known to cause increased breast cancer risk when mutated through the efforts of researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute...
University of Utah Health Care is one of several prestigious health care systems featured in the article by Thomas H. Lee and Toby Cosgrove, titled "Engaging Doctors in the Health...
Researchers have found that the reduction of a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease is an independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer.
Scientists at the University of Utah (U of U), the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and colleagues have developed a powerful tool called pVAAST that combines...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - With CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1-7) just around the corner, the American Heart Association would like to congratulate the Utah Legislature and Gov...
(The Wall Street Journal) - LANDOVER, MD – The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that H. Steven White, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and principal investigator of the National Institutes...
(Science Daily) - Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) - a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - is an independent risk factor for renal and...
It was long assumed that the joining of egg and sperm launched a dramatic change in how and which genes were expressed. Instead, new research shows that totipotency is a...
Mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) could walk less than two weeks following treatment with human stem cells. The finding, which uncovers new avenues for...
Barbara Wirostko, M.D., a clinical adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, saw an opportunity to learn more about glaucoma through using a...
The University of Utah's M.E. Hartnett, M.D., is organizing and moderating a cross-disciplinary symposium that addresses retinopathy of prematurity: the epidemiology, environmental effects from oxygen and nutrition, stem cell studies...