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After Alzheimer's, vascular dementia is the second-most common type of dementia. Following more than a decade of development in the lab, researchers are preparing to evaluate a novel peptide in humans.

New research has found that Y chromosome loss occurs in healthy-seeming tissue before tumors begin to form, making the loss of a hormone an early indicator of cancer danger.

The NIH recently granted the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson nearly $2.3 million over five years to fund additional seats for students pursuing dual doctoral and medical degrees.

Few spiders elicit as much fear as the brown recluse, but most people are far less likely to run into one or get bitten than they think, according to U of A researcher Matthew Cordes.

A new study reveals that astrocytes, the supposed "support cells" that are spread all over the brain, are as important as neurons in fear memory.

U of A researchers Shang Song and M. Maya Kaelberer each received the National Institutes of Health's prestigious New Innovator Award.

The CTSA grant, the largest infrastructure and training award from the NIH, supports the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

A new study provides a shortlist of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose.

Researchers have developed a new biological sensing method that can detect substances at miniscule amounts, which is immediately useful for drug testing and other research.