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MU Researcher Helps Boost Immune System Memory Against Influenza

Findings can potentially support the development of more effective vaccines and therapeutics, ultimately increasing immunological memory to combat influenza and other respiratory infections.

MU Researcher Awarded $2.17 Million in Uterine Lining Research

The endometrium of the adult uterus has remarkable regenerative ability. In most women, this complex tissue repairs itself after injury, including from childbirth, achieving full function to support pregnancy again in the future. Now researchers want to learn more about the cells responsible for those repairs.

Researchers Find Male and Female Immune Systems Get Trained Differently in Response to Infections

The human immune system is adaptive, but what happens when people have compromised immune systems due to chronic conditions, aging, or medications that decrease immunity as a side effect?

New Research Dean Taps European Roots to Sow Seeds for Scientific Success

For Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD, moving to Columbia is honoring her European roots. Although Columbia’s population is well over 100,000, its small-town charm felt a lot like home.

Quick Collaboration

One year in, this NextGen researcher is already fulfilling the initiative's mission to foster key research partnerships, exploring how estrogen and progesterone affect fertility in early pregnancy.

AI Software Can Provide ‘Roadmap’ for Biological Discoveries

Predicting a protein’s location within a cell can help researchers unlock a plethora of biological information that’s critical for developing future scientific discoveries related to drug development and treating diseases like epilepsy.

Cheng Developing Software to Predict Protein Function Using Generative AI

A Mizzou Engineer has received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a tool that will predict how a protein functions based on its order of amino acids.

Parks Receives 2023 Edwin Bierman Award for Diabetes Research

Elizabeth Parks, PhD, professor of nutrition and exercise physiology and the Associate Director of the Clinical Research Center at the Institute for Clinical Translational Science, awarded the 2023 Edwin Bierman Award for contributions to diabetes research.

New Research Offers Hope in Fight Against Blood Cancers

A groundbreaking process developed by researchers based in the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building is offering new hope in the fight against blood cancers, such as lymphoma and leukemia.

A new view of microscopic processes

New equipment for a specialized electron microscope at the University of Missouri is added with the support of a $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Research Finds Link Between Western Diets and Chronic Liver Disease

New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine has established a link between western diets high in fat and sugar and the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the leading cause of chronic liver disease.

Regulating immunological memory may help immune system fight disease, MU study finds

Findings may help development of potential vaccines or immunotherapies for cancer and various inflammatory diseases.

Researchers Receive $1.2 Million Grant to Study Link Between Gut Bacteria and Liver Disease

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have received $1.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how a diet high in fat and sugar may stimulate a type of gut bacteria to cause liver disease.

Sedentary Lifestyle and Sugary Diet More Detrimental to Men

A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine is the first evidence in humans that short-term lifestyle changes can disrupt the response to insulin of blood vessels. It’s also the first study to show men and women react differently to these changes.

Growth and discovery: NextGen marks one year

NextGen researchers have been awarded $97 million in grants in first year.

A chance at ‘upcycling’ life

A mid-Missouri woman benefits from the power of advancements in science and medicine harnessed at the University of Missouri and supported by MU’s most ambitious research initiative, the NextGen Precision Health initiative.

W. David Arnold named new executive director of NextGen Precision Health initiative

University of Missouri President Mun Choi and Richard J. Barohn, executive vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, have named W. David Arnold as the next executive director of the NextGen Precision Health initiative.

Learn more about MU’s Translational Biosciences PhD Program

The University of Missouri’s Translational Biosciences PhD program is innovating how scientists are trained, resulting in producing better outcomes for our community — a staple of the NextGen Precision Health initiative. Watch this video to learn more.

Drug that lowers blood sugar also reduces blood vessel dysfunction caused by aging

An FDA-approved drug medication intended to lower blood sugar may also prevent vascular constriction and stiffening in aging male mice.

Modifying the body’s immune system to help treat Type 1 diabetes

Scientists at University of Missouri collaborate with Harvard, Georgia Tech to develop a novel diabetes treatment involving transplanting pancreas cells that produce insulin.