Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering
A team of researchers led by University of Utah bioengineering professors has discovered that damage to collagen, the main building block of all human tissue, can occur much earlier at a molecular level from too much physical stress. From left to right: University of Utah bioengineering associate professor Michael Yu, research associate Yang Li, graduate student Jared L. Zitnay and bioengineering professor Jeff Weiss.