Health News from the Chronicles
It's a perennial issue on college campuses nationwide, one with heavy effects on the health and saefty of students: Binge drinking.
A doctoral candidate from psychology has published findings that suggest patterns of binge drinking establish the environment for dangerous situations.
The study,…
A research team led by Ying Xu, Regents-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Franklin College, has published some compeeling new findings on the growth of cancer cells:
Low oxygen levels in cells may be a primary cause of…
Associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology Lance Wells has been named a Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator by the Georgia Research Alliance:
Wells’ research explores how modification of proteins by sugars, a process known as O-glycosylation, affects their biological…
Franklin College researchers have used nanoparticles and alternating magnetic current to kill cancer cells in mice without harming healthy cells:
The findings, published recently in the journal Theranostics, mark the first time to the researchers' knowledge this cancer type has been treated using…
The promise of therapeutic stem cells as a strategy to introduce new cells into damaged tissue to treat disease and injury has long been balanced with the practical difficulties of doing so. A new study from researchers in cell biology presents a better understanding of how stem cells transform…