School of Medicine

School of Medicine researchers genes play a larger role than environment if girls advance to problem drinking and alcohol dependence.

The School of Medicine and AstraZeneca have formed a research collaboration to develop new ways to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease.

Photo by Tim ParkerFaculty and staff from the Genome Sequencing Center went to an area middle school April 24 to talk to students about National DNA Day.

Ensuring that the elderly have access to transportation while preventing age-related driving impairments will be the focus of the eighth annual Friedman Conference on Aging, “Are We Licensed for Life? Transportation and Driving Issues in an Aging Society.”

The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer’s brain plaques, researchers found.

Photo by Tim ParkerMedical and occupational therapy students held a “senior prom” April 12 to facilitate social interactions between the school and the older adult community.

By adding a simple step to an operative procedure, heart surgeons found a significant improvement in the outcome for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences will mark two milestones May 1-2: its 35th anniversary and graduating its 1,000th student.

School of Medicine research could lead to the prevention up to one-fifth of birth defects in humans caused by genetic mutations.

School of Medicine scientists have used a drug to prevent the brain abnormalities that lead to seizures in mice with an inherited form of epilepsy.