UPMC, Pitt Pediatricians Make Rare Disease Breakthrough
It was a nagging mystery: A rare-disease expert at UPMC [...]
Nanotechnology May Help Improve Organ Transplantation Outcomes
A nanoparticle technology created at Duquesne University for oxygen delivery [...]
How Fibrosis Can Start and Become Devastating in Different Body Tissues
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities worldwide [...]
Pitt-UPMC Scientists Are Inventing mRNA Vaccine to Cure Liver Failure
Today, the only cure for end-stage liver disease is an [...]
Gamifying Vision: How Mobile Gaming Is Tracking Vision Degradation in Patients
Allison Proffitt, for Bio-IT World, recently reported how innovative vision [...]
Kozai Lab Student Receives NIH F99/K00 Pre-To-Postdoc Award to Improve Brain Implants
Steven Wellman, a bioengineering PhD candidate at the University of [...]
Modeling Women’s Health After Childbirth
Childbirth is a momentous and fraught time. For women, childbirth [...]
Sense of Touch Improves Control of Robotic Arm
Most able-bodied people take their ability to perform simple daily [...]
Pitt Scientists Who Regrew Retina Cells to Restore Vision in Tiny Fish Set Their Sights on Humans
For centuries, people thought that blindness was incurable – once [...]
Roy Lab Student Abigail Allen Receives NIH F31 for Her Cardiovascular Research
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the [...]