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(02/18/15 10:00am)
The science of tissue engineering — scientists growing new organs in a laboratory setting — is the type of futuristic technology most often seen in movies or TV shows. But it’s closer than one might think, literally; it’s happening right here on campus.
(02/10/15 8:00am)
Autopsies are on the decline in the United States. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows a 50 percent drop in the rate of autopsies from 1972 to 2007, so that now they occur in only 8 percent of deaths.
(02/09/15 10:00am)
Twenty-five high school students competed in the state’s first New Mexico Brain Bee held at the Health Sciences Center, but only Taos High School senior, Alayna Barela, will move on to the national competition.
(02/05/15 10:00am)
Say that a brilliant scientist has invented a flying car or made a cure for cancer. While many believe the scientist should be popping open the champagne and celebrating, instead they’re probably asking themselves, what now? The answer: bring it to STC.UNM.
(01/28/15 8:00am)
UNM will soon open the doors to its newest research facility, the Center for Stable Isotopes, which will allow researchers from a wide range of fields to delve into the mysteries of the natural world by looking at its smallest building blocks.
(01/15/15 10:00am)
In the lower levels of UNM’s CERIA building are jars and jars of what at first glance appear to be pasta. There are long egg noodles, balls of twisted up spaghetti, thin vermicelli strands, and crispy pieces of chow mein. Except they aren’t noodles — they are part of the third largest parasite collection in the western hemisphere.
(01/14/15 8:00am)
The University deals in some pretty big money – the projected budget for 2014-2015 is just shy of $2.6 billion, for only one year. So where does all of this money come from, and more importantly, how does UNM spend it?
(12/08/14 10:00am)
As winter approaches and the semester winds down, students and faculty alike may be turning their attention to things such as hot chocolate and warm sweaters. But one lab on campus is trying to make things colder — much colder.
(12/03/14 8:00am)
The term “natural product” might sound more likely to be associated with a new organic diet or retail fad, but to scientists it is a term corresponding to clinically prescribed drugs used for decades. Representing many past and present medicines used to fight infections, some natural products are nature-made antibiotics. The trick is finding them.
(11/21/14 8:00am)
A combination of overuse and incorrect use of antibiotics is leading to a global epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that a recent report by the World Health Organization claims “threatens the achievements of modern medicine.” But a research team at UNM is creating an alternative for fighting a common, highly resistant infection.
(11/13/14 10:00am)
In the face of cancer, the human body is often portrayed as helpless, requiring the aid of countless hours of chemotherapy and, most likely, surgery to defeat it.
(11/11/14 8:00am)
Start with your daily allergy medicine. Then throw in something stronger for cold and flu season. Add a helping of painkillers for that splitting headache or your lingering sports injury. Finally, finish with a morning caffeine jolt.
(10/31/14 7:00am)
After the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists turned their attention to the wiring of the human brain, considered the next unmapped frontier.
(10/29/14 9:00am)
A team of researchers at UNM has developed a new strategy for the creation of vaccines with near limitless applications, from malaria and cancer to high cholesterol.
(10/23/14 9:00am)
It might have been any group of settlers that brought the genetic mutation, unaware that it would pass from generation to generation.
(10/14/14 7:00am)
Two friends share a diet of fast food and sugary desserts. One friend gains 20 pounds, the other gains two — a puzzling outcome, and one that hardly seems fair. But UNM assistant professor William Sherman Garver may have found the reason for the difference.
(10/13/14 9:00am)
Oneida Aragon awoke in the middle of the night to a disturbing silence: Her husband was not breathing. Again.
(10/03/14 11:11am)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Austen, George Orwell, Chopin — all are believed to have died from tuberculosis. Scientific advances have lowered death rates, particularly in the United States, where TB was once the leading cause of death and known as the “white plague.” Yet today, TB remains a leading infectious disease killer around the world.
(10/02/14 7:00am)
Eggs, toast and an insulin shot.
(09/25/14 7:00am)
The magnet is perhaps best known for its role in sticking things to the fridge, but scientists at UNM believe they may have a better use: treating cancer.