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Toni BakerResearchers are looking across the entire human genome to see if early life stress causes persistent changes in gene expression that increase the lifelong risk of cardiovascular disease. “We know this stress is bad, and we can link this stress to...
High-efficiency transporters that work like a shuttle system to constantly move ions into and out of neurons appear to slam into reverse following a stroke or other injury and start delivering instead too much water, scientists have found. It’s...
A breast cancer drug with promise for improving the chance that couples with unexplained infertility can have a baby without increasing their risk of multiple births apparently does not deliver, according to a comparative study. “The question was...
A new study is looking at whether short, daily bouts of reduced blood flow to an arm or leg can reduce the ravages of dementia. It’s called remote conditioning, and researchers say it activates natural protective mechanisms in the brain that should...
Georgia Regents University is among 15 institutions in the nation to receive federal funding to help train the next generation of physician-scientists in obstetrics and gynecology. GRU will receive $1.7 million over the next five years from the...
The regular physical trauma that appears to put professional football players at risk for degenerative brain disease may also increase their risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, researchers say. The frequent hits football players...
Nick GarrettFrom an engineering standpoint, the skeleton is a work of art. A multifaceted structure providing both support and protection, it handles everything from storing vital minerals to producing red blood cells, all while allowing us to move. But it does...
High blood levels of a growth factor known to enable new blood vessel development and brain cell protection correlate with a smaller size of brain areas key to complex thought, emotion and behavior in patients with schizophrenia, researchers report...
Ten years ago, Costa Layman Farms and the Georgia Regents University College of Nursing took a bold and important step into the field of personalized, preventive health care when they partnered to offer a health fair for workers at the South...
Postmenopausal women with kidney or bladder stones are not at increased risk for osteoporosis, but they do have about a 15 percent increased risk of another painful stone, physician-scientists report. Researchers looked at data on approximately...
Hello again from Baylor University! Week six in the REU program has been a real test. This week, I faced some more frustrating lab results and have had to put my best problem-solving skills to work. Outside the lab, I have enjoyed the Baylor student...
The current recommended minimum daily dose of vitamin D is not sufficient to restore healthy vitamin D levels in overweight or obese blacks, researchers report. Rather, daily intake of more than three times the recommended minimum is needed to...
In an apparent effort to help themselves, inflamed kidney cells produce one of the same inflammation-suppressing enzymes fetuses use to survive, researchers report. Inflammation is a major culprit in most kidney disease – from rare conditions, such...
StaffAt the Annual Meeting of the American Urologic Association, an analysis by the GRU Urology team was chosen for highlighting by CancerTherapyAdvisor.com. This study showed that non-married patients with lower socioeconomic status were more likely to...
Scientists have found an explanation for the century-old observation that if you end up with just one kidney, the lone organ gets bigger. When a single kidney is removed because of injury or for transplantation, the remaining kidney can rapidly get...
Body builders have it right: vitamin E does help build strong muscles, and scientists appear to have figured out one important way it does it. Vitamin E has long known as a powerful antioxidant, and now scientists have shown that without it, the...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – An enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen appears to have significant impact in a healthy and injured brain, scientists report. There’s mounting evidence that in the healthy brain, aromatase and the estrogen it enables...
Sharron WallsThe College of Allied Health Sciences’ Dean’s Research Seminar Series is pleased to present Dr. William Stead, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Strategy Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Thursday, Feb...