Utah researchers confirm chromosome may harbor autism gene
Using technology that allows DNA from thousands of genes to be collected and surveyed on a 3 x 1-inch chip, University of Utah medical researchers have confirmed that a region on a single chromosome probably harbors a gene that causes autism. The researchers at the U School of Medicine made the finding by tracing variations in the DNA of an extended Utah family that has a high occurrence of the d...University of Utah hydrogel plays critical part in organ 'printing' study
SALT LAKE CITY--A hydrogel developed by University of Utah medicinal chemist Glenn D. Prestwich, Ph.D., will play an integral role in a $5 million National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) study that includes a component for organ "printing." ......Organ printing is a developing branch of medicine in which cells are taken from a damaged organ and used to literally print living, three-dimensional t...Media alert: Special sessions feature Utah's military, agriculture connections
MADISON, WI, OCTOBER 24, 2005 Two sessions featuring a look at Utah's past, present, and future--one covering Utah's Military History and one focusing on Utah's Agricultural Research--will be presented on Monday, Nov. 7 in Salt Lake City, UT. The events will be held as part of the International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science...Key process in gene regulation occurs in blood platelets, Univeristy of Utah researchers find
SALT LAKE CITY -- In a discovery that upends a longstanding tenet of human biology, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have shown that a key process in gene regulation can occur in human platelets, unique cells that are unusual because they don't have a nucleus (anucleate). ...... Scientists long have thought the transformation of pre-mRNA into mature mRNA--called splicing--happens...New painkiller was born in Utah
The natural form of Prialt a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails.... ... The student, J. Michael McIntosh, worked in the laboratory of University of Utah biologist Baldomero "Toto" Olivera, the summer before his freshman year as the r...Idaho lab, Utah company achieve major milestone in hydrogen research
SALT LAKE CITY -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Ceramatec, Inc. of Salt Lake City are reporting a significant development in their efforts to help the nation advance toward a clean hydrogen economy.... ...Laboratory teams have announced they've achieved a major advancement in the production of hydrogen from water using h...UCLA and Univ. of Utah researchers identify how a hormone regulates iron
A new UCLA and University of Utah study found how a hormone called hepcidin regulates the iron uptake from the diet and its distribution in the body. The study may help develop future treatments for chronic anemia and for diseases of iron overload, such as hemochromatosis. ...... Published online in the journal Science this week, researchers discovered that the hormone hepcidin controls ferropor...