Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Kansas Cancer Center have identified four hallmarks of cancer metastasis — when cancer has spread to different parts of the body from where it started. Metastasis is believed to be the cause of up to 90 percent of cancer deaths. Douglas Hurst, Ph.D.,…
IMAGE: Hyun Jung Kim, a biomedical engineer from UT Austin, holding a sample of his ‘Gut-On-A-Chip’ Technology, which will help inform his work in better understanding Crohn’s Disease…. view more Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin To model human health and disease, organ-on-a-chip technology mimics the human body’s organ structure, functionality…
Expectant parents wait 40 weeks for the arrival of their new baby, but what if labor was induced one week earlier? Conventional wisdom holds that inducing labor at 39 weeks would be cost-prohibitive to a health care system. However, the results of a joint study between University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare show inducing…