A new UO study is examining the effects of opioids on an understudied population: developing infants.
Repulsion and disgust is linked to an evolved human emotion that helps avoid exposure to something sickening.
If all goes as envisioned, research done at the UO could one day lead to a blood test to guide treatment for trauma victims whose bones may be slow to heal.
A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon has shown that linking pollen records to plant traits works to reconstruct the benefits ecosystems provide for humans.
Zou and colleagues from Harvard and the University of Illinois crunched reams of data from Medicare and the National Weather Service and confirmed that more people, particularly older people with respiratory illness, were making more hospital visits on the eve of thunderstorms.
Brad Nolen, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry will be examining the cytoskeleton
Next time there’s an argument about the age of the universe, just say it’s 12.6 billion years old and that University of Oregon physicist Jim Schombert has the equation to back it up.
UO researchers trying to learn more about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected daily life are teaming up to explore how people get groceries and household provisions and how that is changing travel and transportation.
Warming temperatures in cold-climate peatlands may over time trigger decomposition of old, deeply buried peat and increase emissions of climate-harming methane and carbon dioxide into the air, according to a study led by a former University of Oregon doctoral student.
The University of Oregon and Oregon Health & Science University have launched a study to learn how the new coronavirus is dispersed in the air and onto surfaces in the hospital setting, information vital to all hospitals, health care workers and the public.