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Researchers present data and a simple statistical network model that describe an unanticipated property of newly formed, immature neurons in the dentate gyrus.

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MBA/MPH dual-degree program aims to equip public health professionals with business savvy.

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UAB professor leads study in Brazil to help further understand the effects of Zika virus during pregnancy.

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The Medical Genomics Laboratory at UAB is expanding its technological array with a new panel of diagnostic tests for genetic diseases known as neurofibromatoses and rasopathies, using the technique called customized deep-coverage, next-generation sequencing or NGS.

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Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are set to use computer models to investigate NASA tests to develop an engineering tool to design missions using a new type of long-distance space propulsion.

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UAB researchers uncover new information about drivers’ likelihood to participate in risky roadway behavior.

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Gift from United Therapeutics will establish UAB Xenotransplantation Program and bring additional resources to support the endeavor with a goal of genetically modified kidney transplants taking place by 2021.

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Tector’s arrival will bring the addition of a multivisceral and small bowel transplant program to UAB’s Division of Transplantation.

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Role of mentors for patients with diabetes is the focus of a $30,000 grant.

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Global Temperature Report: March 2016

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Using satellite imaging, UAB archaeologist Sarah Parcak may have found evidence of the 2nd Norse settlement in North America at a site in Newfoundland.

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Research funding awarded to evaluate the effectiveness of disease-specific outcomes of patients using biologic therapies.

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UAB child and adolescent psychiatry professor discusses children and this messy political campaign.

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In his new book, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club,” international expert on the ethics of human cloning, Gregory Pence, explores issues raised in the sci-fi show “Orphan Black” about human cloning, its ethics and impact on personal identity, genetic enhancement, and other mysterious science. Pence takes a lighthearted look at cloning in popular culture and explains when the show gets the science right and when it doesn’t.

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Research enhancing cybersecurity by changing a networked device’s IP address repeatedly at a very fast pace has won recognition for a computer engineering doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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UAB statistician and multi-institution team discuss common statistical errors in obesity research and how to avoid them.

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Michelle Harris came to UAB on maximal life support, unsure if she would live after a rare multisystem autoimmune disease attacked her lungs. Now, she goes home with her eyes on upcoming prom, graduation.

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UAB researchers use novel approach with historic film to discover just how endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are.

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Researchers made a microscopic snapshot of the early renal lipid changes in acute kidney injury, using a laser-scanning method called MALDI tissue imaging to localize the changes.

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Could the moon once have flopped over on its side like a child’s top? Yes, says a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) scientist in Nature magazine, after he and collaborators discovered water deposits that may indicate its poles have shifted.

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Southern Research is proud to announce the development of a unique antiviral assay - a test that can be used by researchers worldwide to detect the Zika virus in infected cell cultures.

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UAB assistant professor leads the way in providing therapy for HIV patients with chronic pain.

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Developmentally appropriate activities conducted by parents with their child during the first three years after birth reduce childhood cognitive delays in low-resource families.

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Remember the basics of water safety as you head to the pool, lake and beach.

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Experts take an in-depth look into a favorite college pastime by understanding the dangers and risks of alcohol.

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Springing forward with daylight saving time may increase your risk of having a heart attack if you have a history of heart disease.

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There’s no known cure for the common cold, but receiving multiple tattoos can strengthen your immunological responses, potentially making you heartier in fighting off common infections, according to research by a trio of University of Alabama scholars. However, receiving a single tattoo can, at least temporarily, lower your resistance.

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Kejin Hu, Ph.D., has found a robust reprogramming factor that increases the efficiency of creating human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) from skin fibroblasts more than 20-fold, speeds the reprogramming time by several days and enhances the quality of reprogramming.

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UAB researchers present the first findings of a large study of cannabidiol for treating seizures

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Middle aged and older workers at higher risk for cardiovascular health in some jobs.

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Dr. Sherwood Burns-Nader, a UA professor in the department of human development and family studies, hopes to get a brief snapshot into the life of a family fighting pediatric cancer through a current study. Burns-Nader is recruiting participants for the study. The only criteria are that the child has been diagnosed within the past six months, the parents are 18 or older and they have access to Internet and an email address.

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Global Temperature Report: February 2016

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University of Alabama in Huntsville researchers are seeing potential in a software application that could effectively warn users when they are about to give away sensitive personal information online.

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UAB cardiovascular disease researchers are improving our understanding of the disease and finding new ways to provide medical care to patients.

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UAB cardiovascular disease researchers are improving our understanding of the disease and finding new ways to provide medical care to patients.

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New study sheds light on a link between noncorrectable vision problems and ADHD in children.

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The protective effect of heme oxygenase-1 and its mechanism are described. Overexpression of this enzyme could protect the heart from life-threatening damage after cancer chemotherapy, and it also may be a way to increase the therapeutic window of such drugs.

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Study shows that, although ZEBRA, a system intended to enable prompt and user-friendly deauthentication, works very well with honest people, opportunistic attackers can fool the system.

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A small regulatory RNA called microRNA-155 appears to play a key role in the brain inflammation that helps foster Parkinson’s disease. This finding, using a mouse model, implicates microRNA-155 as both a potential therapeutic target and biomarker for this progressive neurodegenerative disorder.

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The pathway leading to increased expression of TGF-β1 — which provokes the destructive lung remodeling of pulmonary fibrosis — involves Akt1 kinase-induction of reactive oxygen species and mitophagy, and alveolar macrophages are the primary source of TGF-β1 in the lung.

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Officials at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) on Monday briefed U.S. Dept. of Commerce Assistant Secretary for Economic Development Jay Williams about progress on a coming technology business incubator at the university.

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A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows testosterone treatment can have benefits for men over age 65.

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Risk of long-term stroke equally and effectively lowered in stenting and invasive surgery procedures.

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Aged drivers and women using prescription sleep medicines at higher risk for motor vehicle collisions.

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Fourteen-year-old Angelynn Luckado’s cystic fibrosis ravaged her organs, leading to an extensive hospital stay, an extremely rare and complicated transplant, and now a hope for a healthier life thanks to an organ donor.

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Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have used UAH’s Rocket-city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone produced by lightning in the United States.

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UAB researchers have found a marker on blood cells that may help the most pressing problem in chronic myelogenous leukemia today — an inability to get patients off treatment. This marker shows heterogeneity among the leukemia stem cells and correlates with leukemic potential.

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Surgeons and administrators from hospitals in 26 states and several foreign countries will attend the 2016 Academic Session on robotic-assisted surgery at UAB, Feb. 19-20, co-sponsored by Intuitive Surgical, developers of the da Vinci surgical system.