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Chris CurryA $53,000 gift from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation – an organization dedicated to raising funds for childhood cancer research – is helping an investigator at the Georgia Cancer Center advance his work in treating pediatric cancer. The...
Toni BakerWhile it’s widely held that tumors can produce blood vessels to support their growth, scientists now have evidence that cells key to blood vessel formation can also produce tumors and enable their spread. “Today we actually propose that blood...
Researchers are dissecting just what happens to the stem cells that make tissues which help keep us upright, with an eye on improving our healthspan.
HDAC inhibitors, already widely used to treat cancer, may be an effective therapy for psoriasis as well, scientists report. They have shown that HDAC3 inhibitors are particularly adept at increasing expression of aquaporin-3, or AQP3, a channel that...
Directly injecting a tumor with an agent that activates a natural, powerful tumor suppressor enhances the drug’s capacity to attack the tumor both locally and where it spreads.
People potentially at risk for stroke are being recruited for a national study to determine whether intense medical management or interventions like surgery or stenting are best at reducing their risk. CREST-2, or the Carotid Revascularization and...
A protein that typically helps keep cells organized and on task becomes a tumor suppressor in the face of liver cancer, scientists say. The protein Scrib, which is emerging as both a tumor suppressor and oncogene depending on the cancer type...
Arthur TakahashiResearchers at Augusta University and Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan, Italy, are investigating the benefits of treating elderly patients with virtual reality in their latest study. Dr. Gianluca De Leo, chair of the Department of Clinical and...
Researchers at MCG are studying a powerful pain medicine that could help relieve the vision damage of glaucoma,
Jennifer Hilliard ScottThe newest endowed chair at the state’s public medical school honors Dr. Virendra Mahesh, a trailblazer in the study of the biochemistry of steroids and reproductive biology, who founded the PhD program in the Department of Endocrinology at the...
Local researchers launch biotech startup to develop novel medical uses of tiny glass microspheres
Physician scientists want to know if a new therapeutic vaccine can prevent or reduce recurrence of cervical cancer in women at high risk for its return.
In the war on cancer, powerful chemotherapy agents are increasingly packaged with immunotherapy that primes a patient’s immune system to better battle the disease. To strengthen their synergy, scientists are now focusing on immune cells that...
Brennan MeagherIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses how “Markov Modeling,” a complex analysis process that considers a...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman at the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses results from the first year of a free lung cancer screening program in an area...
In 2011, professional tennis player Venus Williams dropped out of the U.S. Open and revealed to the world that she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Sjogren’s syndrome. Researchers at Augusta University recently obtained a patent...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Too much of a protein already associated with prostate cancer appears to also diminish the energy burning power of brown fat, scientists report. Their studies of the protein Id1 also show high levels reduce conversion of unhealthy...
StaffA neuro research team at Augusta University has spent more than two decades developing the SafeTee Dome Defender ™, a golf helmet designed to protect against the three most common golf head injuries.
Denise ParrishMedical College of Georgia faculty are consistently recognized among the top 1 percent in the nation for patient care, education, research. For 16 consecutive years, AU Medical Center has been the only local hospital to have its physicians included...
Nick GarrettFive Augusta University students and one faculty member from the College of Science and Mathematics presented at the Georgia Academy of Sciences Meeting at Young Harris College on March 24 and 25. Students Courtney Morrison (faculty mentor: Dr. Andy...