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Research Identifies Pathway Connecting Some HIV Drugs With Liver Disease
As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS patients have gotten access to drugs that allow them to live longer."These drugs are miracles," said Dr. Richard...
Tags - Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, Research
Posted - Feb 1Read More
Dr. Sharon Walsh is Among Renowned Scientists who Join Scientific Advisory Board
UK researcher Sharon Walsh is among other nationally renowned experts who were recently named to the Addiction Policy Forum’s Scientific Advisory Board. The board is made up of experts in of medicine,...
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Posted - Feb 1Read More
Sci-Fi to Reality: Superpowered Salamander May Hold Key to Human Regeneration
Regeneration is one of the most enticing areas of biological research. How are some animals able to regrow body parts? Is it possible that humans could do the same? If scientists could unlock the secrets that ...
Tags - scobirc, Research
Posted - Jan 24Read More
Behind the Blue: Dean Robert DiPaola on UK College of Medicine's Growth
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is training more students to be future physicians than ever before. The college is also growing its faculty, its research and its outreach and service to...
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Posted - Jan 23Read More
Study Links Smoking During Pregnancy With Increase in Obesity Later in Baby's Life
University of Kentucky researchers have identified a potential cellular mechanism that connects a mother's smoking while pregnant with an increased risk in the offspring's obesity later in life. Obesity is...
Tags - OB, Research
Posted - Jan 16Read More
UK Study Shows Promise Toward Prevention of Melanoma
In a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a team of University of Kentucky researchers led by Stuart Jarrett, Ph.D., and Dr. John D’Orazio have discovered specific protein interactions that...
Tags - Markey Cancer Center, Research
Posted - Jan 15Read More
UK Neurologist Pens Editorial About Lack of Minority Representation in MS Drug Research
In an editorial published in CNS Spectrums, Dr. Jay Avasarala takes the research community to task for its lack of minority representation in Phase III clinical trials for drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS...
Tags - Neurology
Posted - Jan 7Read More
'Behind the Blue': UK’s Don Frazier Stays Forever Young Through Science Outreach, Research
If staying engaged in something you love is the key to staying young, University of Kentucky emeritus faculty member Don Frazier certainly is on the right track.At an age when many folks are sitting back and...
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Posted - Dec 4Read More
UK Physiologist Uses Biomechanics to Understand Lung Healing
As a child, Chris Waters was always curious about how things worked. His inquiring mind led him on a path from chemical engineering to biomedical engineering to his current work on a dangerous condition called...
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Posted - Dec 4Read More
New NCI Grant Expands Markey’s Successful Oncology Training Program to High Schoolers
After successfully launching an oncology training program for Appalachian undergrads in 2016, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is expanding the program to include high school students. The ...
Tags - Markey Cancer Center
Posted - Nov 30Read More
Daret St. Clair Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from International Society
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researcher Daret St. Clair, Ph.D., has been named the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient from the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM). St. Clair...
Tags - Faculty, Research
Posted - Nov 27Read More
New NCI Grant Expands Markey’s Successful Oncology Training Program to High Schoolers
After successfully launching an oncology training program for Appalachian undergrads in 2016, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is expanding the program to include high school students. The ...
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Posted - Nov 26Read More
UK Biochemist Recognized for Work in FUS-ALS
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have discovered new biological processes by which mutations in the FUS gene cause neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).FUS is a DNA and RNA binding...
Tags - Biochemistry, Research
Posted - Nov 21Read More
UKnow: Pediatric Plastic Surgeon Applies Global Experience to Kentucky Patients
By Hilary BrownLink to original UKnow article.For plastic surgery resident Dr. Ashley Boustany, spending a week in a hospital in Ecuador working with surgeons and dentist on cleft lips and palates was the best...
Tags - Surgery
Posted - Nov 21Read More
UK Orthopaedic Trauma Research Team Shows the World What Kentucky Can Do
The Orthopaedic Trauma Service research team in UK HealthCare’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine is comprised of a team that has made a tremendous impact despite being formed less than two...
Tags - Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
Posted - Nov 16Read More
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