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Six undergraduate students on the University of Arizona’s Microgravity Research Team conducted experiments to determine whether polymers, large molecules composed of many repeated subunits, made in space behave similarly to the same polymers made on Earth.
The University of Arizona | Ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave leads students in a search for secrets of ancient remedies that may benefit modern medicine.
University Research | Emory UniversityA national opioid epidemic is driving people from pills to heroin, filling emergency rooms with overdose cases, and killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. What are we doing about it?
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Emory UniversityThe following essay comes from Steven Waronker 79C, chief of anesthesiology for Emory Speciality Associates. Having lost his son to an opioid overdose, Waronker asks, “What’s being done now to stop this, and what more can we do?”
Emory UniversityBiology undergraduates at Emory are studying genetics in a big way: They are the first to take a crack at researching the raw data from the sequence of the genome of the whale shark, the world’s largest fish.
Emory University | As part of Emory University's ongoing Conversations with America focus group series, which encourages our community to address some of our country's most difficult issues, President Sterk takes a moment to discuss her own perspective on such topics as inclusion and diversity, immigration, the fut
Emory University | Articles & Op-EdsFelicia Goodrum, a University of Arizona associate professor of immunobiology and member of the BIO5 Institute, has devoted 20 years researching the cytomegalovirus, or CMV, one of eight human herpesviruses infecting 60 to 99 percent of adults worldwide.
The University of Arizona | "Father." Her father, Isaiah Nixon, an African American man who had dared to vote in the 1948 Democratic Primary in Montgomery County, Georgia, only the second held since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all-white primaries unconstitutional. Her father, who was gunned down by two white men that evening…
Emory University | Get to know Ayumi Pottenger, a senior studying molecular and cellular biology in the hopes of developing treatments for those with Parkinson’s disease while elucidating some of the mysteries of the brain.
The University of Arizona | A randomized clinical study of adolescent boys with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) found that a diet low in free sugars (those sugars added to foods and beverages and occurring naturally in fruit juices) resulted in significant improvement in NAFLD compared to a usual diet.
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