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Jennifer Hilliard ScottDr. Jennifer E. Miller, an assistant professor of medical ethics and population health at New York University and president of Bioethics International, will speak at Augusta University Wednesday, Dec. 6. Her public talk, Ethics, Transparency and...
Nick GarrettDr. David Bulla and Dr. Debra van Tuyll won Awards of Excellence for research at the 25th Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.
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Toni BakerOxidative stress plays a big role in the brain cell loss that occurs in Parkinson’s disease. Now scientists have their sights on a protein that inhibits one of the body’s natural protections against it. The blocker is Bach1, a protein and...
Brennan MeagherHave you ever noticed how hot a laptop or cell phone can get after hours of use? This is one of the biggest problems with modern-day electronics, according to Dr. Trinanjan Datta, associate professor of physics in the Augusta University College of...
The Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health have joined the first large national clinical trial to determine if bone marrow transplantation should be part of the standard of care for patients with sickle cell disease. The National...
A key enzyme that helps our proteins fold and function properly may also be a good therapeutic target to improve blood vessel health in diseases like diabetes and atherosclerosis, scientists say. The enzyme is protein disulfide isomerase, or PDI...
We know that too much body fat is generally bad for our cardiovascular system, and now scientists are learning more about how too little fat yields some of the same damage. Their goals include determining whether leptin replacement therapy for...
Chris CurryWhile competition can be healthy, it is collaboration among researchers that is more likely to be the key to finding new treatments, therapies and a cure for cancer.
In oxygen-compromising conditions like diabetes, the body grows new blood vessels to help, but the result is often leaky, dysfunctional vessels that make bad matters worse. Now scientists have identified a new target for reducing that dysfunctional...
A study of otherwise healthy adolescents showed that those who consumed the least vitamin K1– found in spinach, cabbage, iceberg lettuce and olive oil – were at 3.3 times greater risk for an unhealthy enlargement of the major pumping chamber of...
Arthur TakahashiThe Cyber Institute at Augusta University wants to bring together different disciplines across the institution to solve problems creatively through its 2018 Interdisciplinary Intramural Awards Program.
Denise ParrishDr. Sylvia Smith, co-director of the James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Institute, was awarded a $300,000 grant to further study retinitis pigmentosa.
Cancer vaccines may need to better target T cells that can hold up to the long fight against cancer, scientists report. Studies of two T cell types that are equally activated by alpha-fetoprotein, a well-established antigen made by liver cancer...
Danielle HarrisThe Office of Diversity and Inclusion will launch its Diversity and Inclusion Grand Rounds speaker series with a presentation by highly acclaimed researcher and Augusta University Education Professor Juan Walker.
Dr. Marie A. Tonette Krousel-Wood, senior associate dean for faculty affairs and associate provost for health sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, will give the keynote address at the 9th annual Medical...
A topological insulator is a material that is able to conduct electricity on the surface but insulates material underneath the surface. This may sound like a standard definition or just a bunch of words to some, but to Kenny Stiwinter, topological...
A group of steroid hormones could provide new insight into the bone loss and deterioration that occurs with aging, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University report. Previous research has shown that the protein histone...
Dr. Robert Foster and Dr. Melissa Bemiller are set to present during the first of four “The Life of the Mind” lectures on Monday, Sept. 18 from 1-2:15 p.m. in the JSAC coffee house. Hosted by the Katherine Reese Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities...
Dr. David Terris, a Regents’ Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Medical College of Georgia, is the recipient of a 2017 Presidential Citation from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The awards recognize...