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Toni BakerNew gene editing technology, prime editing, snips only a single strand of the double-stranded DNA. CRISPR makes double-strand cuts, which can be lethal to cells, and produces unintended edits at both the work site as well as randomly across the...
Henry HanksThe format for Graduate Research Day differs in more ways than one from how it will be presented this year.
Danielle HarrisLearn how a researcher at the Georgia Cancer Center is working to eliminate Georgia's breast cancer disparities.
As the name implies, induced pluripotent stem cells can become any type of cell in our body, and scientists have evidence that when they prompt them to become muscle progenitor cells they can help restore the sometimes debilitating muscle loss that...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottWhen COVID-19 forced medical students out of classrooms and clinical rotations, faculty and staff at the Medical College of Georgia provided an online platform for learning about the pandemic.
Kiara HeffnerDaniel Adamkiewicz, a second-year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia, along with other students in his cohort, ran an inaugural case competition to study value deficits and its impact on quality of care, resources and stewardship.
Georgia Cancer Center researcher tackles clinical trial hesitancy in the Black community in the southeast.
CBD normalizes levels and function of two proteins - TREM2 and IL-33 - key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improves cognition as it also reduces levels of the immune protein IL-6...
$1.8 million NCI grant enables exploration of cancer-fighting compound isolated from Moroccan fungus
MCG and Georgia Cancer Center scientists have early evidence that the peptide EnnA, isolated from a fungus living symbiotically with a flowering plant known for its penchant of trapping flies, could be a powerful opponent of aggressive triple...
Scientists want to know more about how an inexpensive, low-risk treatment may improve recovery from the most deadly type of stroke. Called remote ischemic conditioning, or RIC, it involves successive bouts of compressing then relaxing an arm or leg...
Lisa KaylorChildren as young as 8 can be vaccinated against HPV, which is the top defense against cervical cancer. Dr. Sharad Ghamande and his research team at the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University are conducting trials aimed at prevention.
Young pregnant women, who appear to have fully recovered from an acute injury that reduced their kidney function, have higher rates of significant problems like preeclampsia and low birthweight babies. MCG scientists are working to better...
The skeleton’s ability to adapt to mechanical loading — the forces put on bone by both gravity and muscle in response to movement — is critical to bone health, and circumstances like spaceflight or a spinal cord injury can interfere, says Dr. Meghan...
Chronic stress that changes the function of a tiny group of neurons known to be important to energy homeostasis in the body as well prompting us to pick up a fork when we are hungry may contribute to depression.
Starting with early childhood, otherwise healthy Black people show signs of slightly diminished heart muscle strength and a slightly higher blood pressure than their white counterparts, possibly putting them on a course for early development of...
StaffThe American Cancer Society and Pfizer have awarded over $399,000 to the Georgia Cancer Center as part of a grant program focused on reducing racial disparities and helping optimize cancer outcomes for Black men and women.
The gift from the estate of the late Leon Bloom, founder of BioLab, Inc., creates the Leon and Dorothy Bloom Chair in Medical Research at the Medical College of Georgia.
Identifying more genetic mutations in an individual’s cancer enables more targeted treatment for patients. That includes finding mutations not previously associated with their cancer type, which opens the door to using drugs targeting those...
Researchers are trying to find ways to break the "positive feedback loop of tissue damage which leads to inflammation which leads to more tissue damage and more inflammation" in TBI's.
Denise ParrishBeam me up: Construction milestone marked this week.