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Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years. New therapies are needed.
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Chloe Naquin spent nine weeks in Puerto Rico studying the Cuban tree frog as part of the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
The NIH grant will support development of a BionanomatrixTM coating for an aneurysm-therapy flow diverter in the brain.
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Nine University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been awarded NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium scholarships and fellowships.
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UAB Media Studies students learn how to make documentary films focusing on communities and issues they care about in a semester.
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A new artificial intelligence center will bring more discovery in the field to UAB.
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These research areas — part of the Convergence Revolution — have the greatest potential of achieving tremendous impact on the field of medicine in the coming decades or century.
This advance should facilitate atherosclerosis drug discovery and development.
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A dormant senior design project out of the UAB School of Engineering is finding life at Children’s of Alabama.
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The M.D./Ph.D. student has since moved on to clinical studies, but the research into possible drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease continues.
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The modified mRNA — delivered after experimental heart attacks — transiently allows heart muscle cells to proliferate, leading to reduced infarct size and improved heart performance compared to untreated animals.
The scholarship recognizes outstanding natural sciences, engineering and mathematics students by awarding up to $7,500 for academic expenses.
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Bracamonte, Sun and Wang received two-year fellowships from the American Heart Association for their research within the department of biomedical engineering.
Neuroengineering blends engineering principles with neuroscience to find better ways to treat neurological conditions and to build on understanding how the brain and nervous system function.
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The study’s goal is to limit the toxic side effects common to many cancer therapies while not affecting their therapeutic benefits.
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Insights gained from this project can lead to a new understanding of the mechanisms by which human deep-brain activity gives rise to cognitive-emotional behaviors, such as social thought processes, impulsivity and affect.
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Direct reprogramming is a potential therapy for heart attack patients. In vitro, TBX20 improved contractility and mitochondrial function of reprogrammed heart muscle cells.
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Zhang wins $11.2 million NIH PPG grant to improve heart attack recovery through growth of new heart muscle cells.
The Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, known as the BCVS, is one of the largest councils at the American Heart Association, and it is one of the largest organizations in cardiovascular sciences globally, with more than 4,700 members.
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Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing in a newborn pig model showed increased cell cycle activity and proliferation in cardiomyocytes, which helped remuscularize the left ventricle after experimental heart attack.
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