
Getting Ready to Rumble, Research
It’s time for another fight inside a large, second floor lab within The University of Alabama’s Science and Engineering Complex.
It’s time for another fight inside a large, second floor lab within The University of Alabama’s Science and Engineering Complex.
A Tuscaloosa-based surgeon’s theory related to chronic pain is likely headed for a clinical trial early next year, and it’s drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.
Researchers are helping patients tap into the healing power of the mind to give hope to persons with pain.
Some of the lowliest — not to mention lightest — of creatures are helping a University of Alabama scientist better understand the genetics behind weight gain.
A University of Alabama researcher finds a possible lipid metabolism disorder in children with autism.
After learning that African-American women in Alabama had the highest death rate from heart disease — even though they account for less than a third of the state’s female population — a University of Alabama nursing professor was compelled to ask why.
Simple requests can sometimes be worthy of spontaneous celebration at The University of Alabama’s Brewer Porch Children’s Center.
Music gives us great pleasure, but it can also be a tool to help people at their most vulnerable moments.
History tells us that a community’s gift can often become its curse. Such is the case with Walker County. The remoteness and unspoiled natural beauty of the region makes an autumn drive along the yet-to-be-completed Corridor X a lesson in conservation. But remoteness means inaccessibility, a damper to industry and a curse to preventative and emergency medical care.
At The University of Alabama, numerous researchers embark on the challenge to bioengineer systems, specifically in breast cancer detection, cancer treatment options and robotic prosthetics.