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H. pylori bound to stomach tissueThe bacterium that causes ulcers and contributes to stomach cancers uses a clever interaction between two genes to randomly tighten and loosen its grip on the stomach, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and Umeå University in Sweden.

The main role of the residential peer mentors is to provide resources to help create a successful academic community in the South 40.

A five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia program into its 21st year.

She joined the University in 1991 in the Office of Computing and Communications and has worked her way up.

P. Roy Vagelos was head of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the School of Medicine from 1966-1975.

Nationally acclaimed director Lee Mun Wah will present his film Last Chance for Eden at 3 p.m. Dec. 3 in Goldfarb Hall, Room 124. A discussion with Wah will follow. Last Chance for Eden is a documentary featuring men and women discussing the issues of racism and sexism in the workplace. They examine the impact […]

They seek to recognize the contributions made by teaching faculty in training medical students to become outstanding physicians.

Courtesy photoMary Jo BangPoet Mary Jo Bang, associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from her latest collection, The Eye is Like a Strange Balloon (2004), at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, for The Writing Program Reading Series.

Being studied is a drug designed to reduce the severe pain that can last for years after a bout with the disorder.

Here is the thing about envisioning someone who specializes in Chaucer. You automatically imagine that he wears a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, smokes a pipe and speaks slowly, deliberately and in a monotone. What a relief then, to find out that David A. Lawton, Ph.D., professor and chair of the English department and […]