Speedskating’s latest phenom is not what you would expect. At just 18 years old, standing 5 feet 6 inches tall, Maame Biney is the first African American woman to represent...
Corrine Welt coordinated with her colleagues in Saudi Arabia to use a new database being assembled in Saudi Arabia to help identify genetic underpinnings of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency affection all...
Managing care for patients with chronic pain is complicated as practitioners navigate the need to alleviate pain while keeping powerful medications off the streets. Nicholas Cox and colleagues at University...
For Alex Wubbels being an Olympian wasn’t a lifelong dream – but a wish. “My mom always had a thing for making wishes with the wishbone,” she said. “Every wish...
Every year, more than 300,000 Americans contract Lyme disease, an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium transferred during a tick bite. In a small percentage of patients, infection symptoms...
John A. Moran Eye Center physician investigator Mary Elizabeth Hartnett's National Institutes of Health-funded lab has discovered crucial information about the role of EPO in the eye.
Though he’s a native Utahn, Christopher Gee, MD was in medical school in Pennsylvania, -- thousands of miles away from all the excitement -- when the Olympics came to Salt...
Scientists at University of Utah Health have developed a test that can quickly identify populations that had been recently infected with cholera. The new test can be easily deployed in...
At the "Genetics of Storytelling" panel at the Sundance Film festival in Park City, Utah, a collection of artists and scientists, the panel discussed telling the narrative that lives within...
A video focuses on Mikaela Shiffrin as she blasts out of the starting gate in Courchevel, France, and threads her way to another win on this year’s FIS World Cup...
Investigators at University of Utah Health and a consortium of international scientists have sequenced the three billion bases of DNA in the human genome using an inexpensive, portable device. Reaching...
Research by scientists at University of Utah Health shows how experiments in the common fruit fly can yield insights into rare human diseases with relative ease at a rapid pace.
Scientists at University of Utah Health developed a new search engine to overcome obstacles for searching genome databases that may accelerate the application of personalized medicine.
The Immunology, Inflammation and Infectious Disease (III) Initiative at the University of Utah has awarded seed grants to eight projects that support the initiative’s aim of exploring the fundamental function...
Scientists at University of Utah Health developed a new search engine to overcome these obstacles that may accelerate the application of personalized medicine.
The Immunology, Inflammation and Infectious Disease (III) Initiative at the University of Utah was established in 2017 on the premise that a better understanding of the three "I"s will fundamentally...
Vaccines have played an integral role to improving the health of a population by fighting off serious infections, like measles, or offering new approaches to prevent diseases, like cervical cancer...