Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish

Neil Shubin and Yara Haridy show how teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

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Bridging basic discoveries to treatments

Hening Lin brings expertise in enzymes to UChicago, where he works to translate basic science to clinical applications.

The surprising side effects of radiation therapy

Ralph Weichselbaum and team find that high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors.

Nanoparticle delivery of cancer drugs

Xiaoyang Wu developed a nanoparticle-based system that delivers chemotherapy.

Device detects airborne signs of disease

Bozhi Tian and Erika Claud work on portable tech to capture molecules in the breath.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

‘Dr. Marcy’ gets the gold

For Marcia Faustin, MD’13, FAAFP, caring for elite gymnasts — and everyday patients, too — is a privilege.

Mathers Foundation supports research on RNA processing

Cassandra Hayne and Scott Oakes will use the $700,000 award to study cellular machinery responsible for RNA splicing, and what happens when it goes awry.

AACR unifies cancer science and medicine

More than 80 researchers from UChicago presented their latest discoveries at the latest AACR annual meeting.

UChicago to host conference on health economics and diabetes

The Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge convenes researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling in the field of diabetes.

Expanding global access to cancer genetics services

A colloquium in Paris brought together cancer genetics experts from the US, UK, Europe and Africa to to implement genetics services in more countries.

FEATURED EVENTS

Team Science In Clinical Research

Panel discussion to celebrate Clinical Trials Day

May 22

Tips For Advocacy Through Public Writing

With V. Ram Krishnamoorthi

May 28

LAB NOTEBOOK

More research publications and viewpoints from our faculty and trainees:

Innovative strategies to enhance access to HCV therapy. Hannah Roth, Andrew Aronsohn. Lancet.

Efruxifermin in compensated liver cirrhosis caused by MASH. Mary Rinella, et al. New England Journal of Medicine.

Nucleoporins shape germ granule architecture and balance small RNA silencing pathways. Symonne C. Liu, Ivan Leon, Heng-Chi Lee, Donglei Zhang, et al. Nature Communications.

Mammalian queuosine tRNA modification impacts translation to enhance cell proliferation and MHC-II expression. Olivia N. P. Zbihley, Kate Johnson, Luke R. Frietze, Wen Zhang, Marcus Foo, Nicolas Chevrier, Tao Pan. Journal of Molecular Biology.

Two-stage CD8+ CAR T-cell differentiation in patients with large B-cell lymphoma. Guoshuai Cao, Yifei Hu, Tony Pan, Erting Tang, Nicholas Asby, Thomas Althaus, Peter A. Riedell, Michael R. Bishop, Justin P. Kline, Jun Huang, et al. Nature Communications.

Evolution: Gene reuse… again! Nicholas W. VanKuren. Current Biology.

Turnover among early-career advanced practice clinicians. Max J. Hyman, Andrew W. Schram, Ted A. Skolarus, Parth K. Modi, et al. JAMA Network Open.

Purposeful drug repurposing. Peter Nagele, et al. JAMA Psychiatry.

Computational challenges arising in algorithmic fairness and health equity with generative AI. Brett Beaulieu-Jones, et al. Nature Computational Science.

It's time for health care to see the humanism in housing. Marshall Chin, et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Trends in home health care among traditional medicare beneficiaries with or without dementia. Tamara Konetzka, et al. JAMA Network Open.

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