8363 Results
1

UC study: Brain organ plays key role in adult neurogenesis

July 2, 2024

The University of Cincinnati has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid play a key role in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury.

4

Blueprint for a reproductive hormone may aid infertility treatment in women

June 21, 2021

UC researchers Thomas Thompson, PhD, and Kaitlin Hart, hope to advance our understanding of of the protein anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), which helps form male reproductive organs and in females regulates follicle development and ovulation in the ovaries. It may someday help us treat infertility in women.

5

UC research shows effectiveness of ointment that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria

December 1, 2021

Research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine shows that use of a topical drug, called AB569, a combination of acidified nitrite and EDTA (or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) promotes killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria while enhancing the healing of wounds in a variety of burn injuries. The study was published in the journal Infection and Immunity.

7

UC COVID-19 studies awarded $425K

April 15, 2020

Understanding that time was of the essence in combating this highly infectious disease, UC and its College of Medicine’s Office of Research conducted a rapid review and distribution of $425,000 in novel pilot grants to researchers, focusing on eradicating the disease.

10

UC student uses zebrafish to study spinal deformities

January 21, 2021

Oriana Zinani, a doctoral student in molecular developmental biology at the University of Cincinnati, is part of a team of researchers using zebrafish embryos to study a gene mutation that causes scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine that typically occurs in humans just before puberty.