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LITTLE ROCK -- Dr. Adam Wolfe, a radiation oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, has received a $583,200 grant from the American Cancer Society to study radiation resistance in pancreatic cancer, "a lethal disease with the highest mortality rate of all cancers," a news release said.

From Phoenix, Ariz. to Port. St. Lucia, Fla., 11 medical students from around the nation continued their medical educational journey via the Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital’s Residency Program. On Thursday

A team of researchers discovered mutations that occur during normal aging of human tissues that are induced by the jumping gene of long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1).

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and their collaborators have conducted a groundbreaking study targeting 'jumping genes' in the entire genomes of the human large intestine.

Fred Hutch partners with the University of Washington awarding graduate degrees. Most students are members of the joint Fred Hutch / University of Washington (UW) Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program, but some come from other UW departments.

As the School’s new head of environmental health, Kari Nadeau trains her expertise on finding solutions to climate-related health issues.

In a mouse model of kidney transplantation, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh discovered a type of immune cell that drives chronic organ transplant failure and discovered pathways that could be therapeutically targeted to enhance patient outcomes. The findings were reported in the journal Science Immunology.

University of Pittsburgh researchers have identified a type of immune cell that drives chronic organ transplant failure in a mouse model of kidney transplantation and uncovered pathways that could be therapeutically targeted to improve patient outcomes.

Two candidates running for the worker stakeholder position in the North Westwood Neighborhood Council election will face the voters next month in the council’s only contested race.

A high risk for in-hospital mortality, ICU admittance and mechanical ventilation was found in patients with COVID-19 plus a community-acquired bacterial infection, according to study results published in Critical Care.“Although confirmed bacteremic coinfections are rare in COVID-19, less than 4 percent of inpatient admissions, our results show that COVID-19 patients with these coinfections