Jacquett Wade of the University of Iowa discusses programs to encourage women to get involved with science and technology.

UI researchers are reminding U.S. doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases that can be passed from mother to child. Though Chagas' disease and Leishmaniasis are generally found in other parts of the world, global travel and migration have made the U.S. vulnerable.

University of Iowa chemists have revealed the chemistry behind how certain diseases, from anthrax to tuberculosis, replicate. The key lies in the function of a gene absent in humans, called thyX, and its ability to catalyze the DNA building block thymine. Results published in the journal 'Science.'

UI researchers have used the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9 to correct a blindness-causing gene mutation in stem cells derived from a patient, offering hope that eye diseases might one day be treated with replacement tissue created from a patient’s own cells.