Hackett Lab News Today

WASHINGTON — Airways plugged with mucus experience more remodeling than airways that have not been plugged with mucus among patients with asthma, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.But although this remodeling occurs throughout the airway wall, it is not uniform, Aileen Hsieh, MS, PhD candidate, Hackett Lab, UBC Centre for Heart Lung

Join artist Lynn Fellman and Professor Perry Hackett for a science and art presentation at Hennes Art Gallery in Minneapolis. It's an evolutionary tale about an ancient fossil gene discovered by Hackett's Lab at the University of Minnesota. The lab awakened the gene from an evolutionary sleep and named it "Sleeping Beauty". Intrigued by the science and the metaphor behind a 14 million year old gene, Lynn created a dimensional art titled "Waking Sleeping Beauty"