Department of cell developmental and integrative biology

The National Institute on Drug Abuse award is designed to stimulate innovation and potentially transformative research from early stage investigators.

These findings in zebrafish and human heart muscle cells have clinical implications for patients with atrial fibrillation.

The Goldwater Program received 1,353 nominations from 446 institutions this year, and the winners will receive a scholarship covering tuition, housing, fees and books.

Knowledge of this previously unrecognized mechanism may aid therapy for patients with interleukin-6 signaling mutations and hyper-IgE Syndrome, or HIES.

The findings indicate that inflammation is present in the brain early in the disease’s progression, but how inflammation affects disease progression remains unknown.

Surprisingly, several competing models for this clathrin-mediated endocytosis all appear to function in two cell lines tested.

In response to a viral infection, intrinsic IL-2 production by effector CD8 T cells affects IL-2 signaling, leading to different fates for two subsets of those cells — the one producing IL-2 and the one not producing IL-2.

Early research internships allow students to discover careers of interest they may not otherwise experience, providing an effective way to set them up for success, study suggests.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

This research suggests that a path to treat currently untreatable cases of cystic fibrosis is clearly achievable.

UAB and Polish researchers propose that the COVID-19 virus acts as a microRNA “sponge” to deplete miRNA levels in ways that aid viral replication and stymie the host immune response.

Study points to a potential immediate treatment for this devastating disease.

This study included preclinical experiments and use of bronchoalveolar cells from IPF patients.

A new study blunts hopes that metformin might help exercising seniors gain more muscle mass.

You might know that sex sells, but did you know that the sex of cells is important in biomedical research?

Quirky evolution yields clues to a fatal condition.