All three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine are eminent scientists, but Mario Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who...
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Oct 08, 2007
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Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has won...
Severely obese patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery significantly reduce their risk of death from coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, according to research published in the Aug. 23, 2007...
Utah's rural residents save more than $1 million a year in emergency room costs by calling the Utah Poison Control Center (UPCC) in the event of potential poisonings
University of Utah Senior Vice President for ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Sciences A. Lorris Betz, M.D., Ph.D., today announced David Entwistle as the new chief executive officer of University of Utah Hospitals &...
The finding by researchers at the University of Utah and University of South Carolina means scientists may be able to develop drugs to prevent or lessen the severity of inflammatory...
The popular dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate proved no better than a placebo in relieving osteoarthritis knee pain in most participants of a major national trial.
For the first time in nearly 50 years, students from the University of Utahs School of Medicine, as well as the Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy and ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, are starting school...
