Health News from the Chronicles
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…
Very interesting finding out of the department of geography, a discipline that truly has no bounds:
Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the previous 15 years, according to an analysis…