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Aug28

UI researcher helps rewrite Earth's volcanic history of 260 million years ago

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A University of Iowa researcher is helping to rewrite the geologic story of one the Earth's most active volcanic periods -- one that included a mass extinction of life -- some 260 million years ago. Volcanologist and planetary geologist Ingrid Ukstins Peate, assistant professor of geoscience in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, published her research online Aug. 24 in the journal Nature

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Aug20

UI researcher helps identify protein with anti-obesity effect

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A research team that included a University of Iowa scientist has identified an anti-obesity effect for a developmentally important protein involved in fat formation. The findings, which are published in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Nature, may suggest a new target for obesity treatments.

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Aug19

UI researchers part of $10 million rural health grant to VA Medical Center

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The Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Rural Health to establish the VA Midwest Rural Health Resource Center.

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Aug19

Fruit flies help UI team understand bacterial infections

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Sometimes it may be a good idea to "shoot the messenger": University of Iowa researchers and colleagues have shown that destroying a messenger molecule used by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) protects against infection-related death in fruit flies.

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Aug01

Thiel receives $100,000 cancer research fellowship

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Kristina Wyatt Thiel, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, is the recipient of a two-year, $100,000 fellowship from the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

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Jul31

UI team helps piece together genetic puzzle of schizophrenia

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University of Iowa researchers contributed to a study that found a particular genetic variation is associated with schizophrenia. The severe mental health disorder affects nearly 1 percent of people in the United States and can include delusions, hallucinations and confused thinking.

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Jul28

Engineers use flood of 2008 for research, future preparation

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In a case of "making lemonade out of lemons," researchers at the University of Iowa College of Engineering's IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering research unit are using data collected on the flood of 2008 to study floods in general and prepare for any future floods along the Iowa River in particular.

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Jul25

'Outsiders' receive grant to study asthma

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A research grant program that encourages "thinking outside the box" will allow a team of University of Iowa investigators to apply findings from heart research to the study of asthma. Specifically, the team has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Strategic Program for Asthma Research, known as SPAR, to see if an enzyme known to play a role in heart failure might also affect smooth muscle cells in the airway and thus play a role in asthma. The basic science research focuses on CaM kinase II, which has been under scrutiny in other UI research.

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Jul24

UI and ISU establish shared DNA sequencing instrumentation

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The University of Iowa and Iowa State University are pooling their resources to significantly enhance both institutions' genetic research capabilities. The two institutions have each purchased a massively parallel DNA sequencer -- an instrument capable of deciphering DNA sequences at the rate of millions to billions of bases in a single run. The two machines -- each with unique advantages -- will be available on a fee-for-service basis to researchers at both universities and to other institutions and private companies. Together, the two instruments represent the state-of-the-art in DNA sequencing technology.

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Jul23

UI external support is a record $386.2 million for 2007-08

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University of Iowa faculty, together with staff and students, generated an all-time record $386.2 million in grants and contracts for UI research, education and service during fiscal 2008, a 2.2 percent increase from 2007.

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