Be careful where you click. Think before you post. The Cyber Institute and the Clinical and Digital Health Sciences Department in the College of Allied Health Sciences offers these tips and more to help you protect yourself—and your devices—online...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, and scientists have found that infusing just a small dose of a cytokine, thought to help cause that failure, can instead prevent or reverse it. The cytokine IL-17A has long been...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Inside the brain, a protein called YAP, best known for its ability to help right-size our developing hearts and livers, appears to have the different but equally important task of helping control inflammation. Scientists at the...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A class of drugs used increasingly to help fight cancer may have the additional benefit of protecting the kidneys when packaged with the powerful chemotherapy agent cisplatin. The nearly 40-year-old cisplatin can be a strong opponent...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A novel peptide appears to enhance a natural mechanism for protecting stressed brain cells and improve cognitive function following cardiac arrest, scientists report. The brain is the body’s biggest user of oxygen and glucose, and...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to become sedentary and start consuming the connections between our neurons, scientists say. The good news is going...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It’s a fairly common genetic condition that can surface as a series of dark skin spots and result in a host of maladies from tumors to premature cardiovascular disease. Medical College of Georgia researchers hope their studies of how...
Several Georgia Regents University undergraduate students made a name for themselves this year across the state of Georgia. Diamond Jenkins Wright, Taylohr Brown and Walter Quiller presented their research, titled “Text Mining and Digital...
Art can be healing and cathartic. Creativity is good for the soul. This was the concept behind the partnership between Georgia Regents University’s Mad Potters Organization and SafeHomes of Augusta, an organization committed to ending domestic...
In early October, Dr. Simon Medcalfe, associate professor of finance and director of the MBA program at the James M. Hull College of Business at Georgia Regents University, and three undergraduate students went to the North American Case Research...
Once again, Georgia Regents Research Institute is providing consultative services of Health Research Associates to assist with the development of grant proposals to external funding sponsors. Dr. Anthony Coelho will be on campus Monday, November 30...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The same lipid that helps algae swim toward the light also appears to enable one type of brain cell to keep cerebrospinal fluid moving, researchers report. The lipid is ceramide, long known to help keep skin smooth, and now Medical...
Dr. Jim Wilde, professor of Emergency Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia and an infectious disease expert with Children’s Hospital of Georgia, cautions Parents magazine readers about administering antibiotics to children when they...
When high school students come to college, they want to find the right answer to questions they have, according to research. But sometimes there’s no right answer. Other times there’s more than one. So GRU faculty got together and created a course...
Looking to start a career in academia? Drawn to the research lifestyle? If so, submitting your undergraduate research for publication might be one of the best things you can do to make yourself a standout candidate in your given field. Arsenal is a...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Weight and physical activity levels are both factors in a child’s ability to acquire and use knowledge, a new study finds. “The question this paper asks that has not been asked before is whether it is just fitness that influences...
Do you have new research to present to colleagues? Do you have a great teaching lesson that needs a trial run? Perhaps you need to prepare for a conference. If so, CIRCA 2016 is your chance to shine for your colleagues at Georgia Regents University...
Dr. Jane Garvin, assistant professor in the Department of Physiological and Technological Nursing, will be honored during ObesityWeek 2015, the combined annual meeting of The Obesity Society (TOS) and the American Society for Metabolic &...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – At its most basic level, the brain is about the power of two, says Medical College of Georgia neuroscientist Dr. Joe Z. Tsien. He postulates in his “Theory of Connectivity” that, not unlike high school, where a human clique includes...
Dozens of high school students from Richmond and Aiken counties were introduced to the benefits of nuclear technology and career opportunities during the third annual GRU Education Day event on Oct. 20. Part of Nuclear Science Week, GRU Education...
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