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Stretching Makes the Superconductor
Superconductors could make everything from the power grid to personal computers more efficient. UConn researcher Ilya Sochnikov and his students are working to better understand these materials.
Hearing Speech Requires Quiet – In More Ways Than One
The painstaking work of two UConn Health researchers led to surprising insights about how the brain processes sounds.
Researchers Call for International Collaboration on Parathyroid Cancer
UConn Health researchers are calling for a global effort to study parathyroid tumors in a bid to find treatments for a rare but serious type of cancer.
Stem Cell ‘Therapy’ Injuries More Widespread Than We Knew
Grotesque side effects from unproven "stem cell" therapies are more common than we realized, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health in Annals of Neurology.
Massive Project to Understand Our Genes Reveals Secrets of RNA
A UConn Health lab spent five years studying human proteins as part of a massive, ongoing collaboration to identify what, exactly, every single bit of DNA and RNA in the human genome does.
NIH Awards $6M to UConn Health Biological Computer Modeling Teams
Two computer modeling teams at UConn Health have been awarded an NIH grant totaling $6 million over five years.
Psychiatric Visits to the Emergency Room Rise Despite the ACA
Despite expanded health insurance coverage, America's emergency rooms have seen a steady increase in psychiatric visits since 2006.
Neither Natural Nor Safe: Compounded Bioidentical Hormones Need Better Evidence
A category of hormone treatments often promoted as safe and "natural" need far more study and research to evaluate those claims, according to a UConn expert.
The Re-Engineering of UConn Health
When UConn Health professionals saw the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, they knew that "business as usual" was over.
Buzzing to Rebuild Broken Bone: It’s Electric!
A group of biomedical engineers from UConn have developed a scaffold of non-toxic polymer that generates a controllable electrical field to encourage bone growth.