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  • age-related macular degeneration

    New drug could help AMD sufferers

    UI pilot study has promising results for age-related macular degeneration

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans.

    Be gone, bacteria

    A team of researchers led by the UI is recommending clinical guidelines that will cut post-surgical infection rate for staph bacteria (including MRSA) by 71 percent and by 59 percent for a broader class of infectious agents known as gram-positive bacteria.

  • UI researcher and colleagues discover new species of ancient Asian lizard

    Species is named for rocker Jim Morrison, the 'Lizard King'

  • over-activated cell

    Live or die?

    Andrew Shepherd, UI postdoctoral scholar in pharmacology, studies cell processes that regulate potassium. When the balance of potassium is disturbed, cell death may occur.

  • Playing as Learning Initiative at the Iowa Children's Museum

    Let the children play

    Research shows that the openness of play - where the process is more important than the product - provides a terrific framework for learning. 
    An initiative by the UI and the Iowa Children's Museum in Coralville will launch on May 14.

  • Daniel Reed

    Video: Building a 21st Century Iowa Economy

    "The UI is committed to being a robust and engaged partner with government and with the private sector to translate research into concrete economic value. Working together, we can build the 21st Century economy." - Dan Reed

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States show large racial disparities in drug treatment success rates

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 10:20am
A photo of China's Tihane-2, the world's top supercomputer. Photo by Jack Dongarra

Wired: UI's Reed discusses China's role in supercomputing

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 10:07am

Law professor consults with 9-11 prosecution team

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 10:00am

Announcements

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Distinguished research staff awardees announced

Mon, 06/10/2013

ICE GAP Fund 2013 open for pre-proposals

Tue, 05/21/2013

Video: VP Reed delivers testimony at House Subcommittee on Energy

Tue, 05/21/2013

OVPR&ED invites applications for Administrative Research Fellows

Fri, 04/19/2013
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