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The big question in biomedicine
We hear a lot of doom-and-gloom about the future. The world will be too hot, too crowded. There will be too few resources and more competition for them. We asked University of Texas at Austin...
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Wildfires subside, but support continues
Students and faculty at The University of Texas at Austin volunteered expertise, time and effort to help residents of Bastrop County cope with damage wrought by the September wildfires. A nursing...
View ArticleWorms may hold the key to fighting Parkinson’s disease
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a simple test, using dopamine-deficient worms, for identifying drugs that may help people with Parkinson’s disease. The worms are able to...
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Pandemic Preparedness
The Texas Pandemic Flu Forecasting tool predicts hospitalizations regionally and state-wide based on various indicators including ILI surveillance data, Google flu trends, absolute humidity and school...
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Headliners: Invisibility, Immigration, Innovation
Wired magazine discovered engineering professor Andrea Alù’s invisibility cloak. [Image by Leo Reynolds, via Flickr Creative Commons] Researchers, scholars and experts from The University of Texas at...
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High-Tech Tattoos Redefine Health Care Solutions
Nanshu Lu is the mind behind the design of the electronic tattoo, an intricate arrangement of serpentine-like micro-wires and silicon that measures vital signs and muscle movement. [Images courtesy of...
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In Search of Peace in the War on Breast Cancer
This is the first story in the yearlong series “In Pursuit of Health,” covering medical news and research happening across the university. Breast cancer cells under a microscope. [Credit: Ed Uthman]...
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The Hard, Expensive — and Exciting Work of Developing a New Drug
Professor Bill Williams creates new ways to deliver existing drugs so that they work more effectively. The inhalation device pictured here is similar to those he and his research partner, Dr. Jay...
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Tech and Health: Innovative Devices Aren’t Science Fiction
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team’s nanomotor is an important step toward developing...
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Working on a Better Way to Treat Pertussis
This story is part of our series “In Pursuit of Health,” covering medical news and research happening across the university. Abby Bassett was only four weeks old when what seemed to be a mild cold...
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