A University of Alabama expert on America’s racial history has been awarded a fellowship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he will join scholars researching so-called “designer medicines” and the possibilities they could lead to racial medicine.
Alabama’s housing market showed continued strength in April with 5,352 units sold, up 7.23 percent over the previous month, according to figures released by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
The Alabama Housing Affordability Index for the first quarter of 2005 remained virtually unchanged from the fourth quarter of last year, according to figures from the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
Science magazine, arguably the world’s premier research journal for scientists, recently highlighted a University of Alabama undergraduate student’s efforts in constructing an online database on the genetics of epilepsy.
Unstoppable? It seems like nothing can stop Alabama’s housing market, not even rising mortgage rates, higher gas prices, or an underperforming U.S. economy.
The Alabama existing home market rebounded some in February as the number of existing homes sold increased to 3,856, a 15.2 percent increase over January sales, according to figures released by the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
University of Alabama researchers have demonstrated that a specific protein protects against the loss of the brain neurons whose demise leads to Parkinson’s disease, a central nervous system disorder estimated to affect more than 1 million Americans.
Growing fruits and vegetables is big business in Chile. Dr. Katrina Ramonell is interested in the tiny science of microarrays — a technology enabling researchers to study thousands of genes simultaneously. Combining the two in an international class Ramonell recently taught could have large implications for the South American country’s crop industry.
The Alabama housing market was sending mixed signals at the beginning of the new year, according to the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center at The University of Alabama.
The Institute of Medicine estimates that almost 100,000 patients die each year because of human errors in their care. This estimate is greater than the numbers of annual deaths from vehicle crashes, AIDS or breast cancer.