Health News from the Chronicles


$4.1 million from NIH to UGA researchers

More terrific news from Franklin College scientists in the CCRC: Ovarian and pancreatic cancers are among the most deadly, not because they are impossible to cure, but because they are difficult to find. There are no screening tests that can reliably detect their presence in early stages, and most…

Franklin scientists continue to unravel stem cell mysteries

New changes in molecular structures on the surface of stem cells, recently discovered by UGA researchers, may play a critical role in the specialization process of embryonic growth: Their study, published recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, demonstrated how the genetic expression of…

Franklin scientists publish new research on Alzheimer's mystery

The neurodegenerative disease that has affected millions of people continues to puzzle researchers, but a new discovery at UGA sheds light on the mystery: Matthew Furgerson, a doctoral candidate in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of biochemistry and molecular biology, used…

Dailey receives $1.5 million NIH grant

UGA microbiologist Harry Dailey has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a class of previously unidentified of anemias:   Dailey will receive funding over the next four years from the highly competitive SHINE—Stimulating Hematology Investigation:…
professor and her co-author in the lab.

New drug targeting utilizes nanoparticles

  The nanoscale continues to unlock dynamic potential of research into therapeutic drug delivery: researchers at the University of Georgia have refined the drug delivery process further by using nanoparticles to deliver drugs to a specific organelle within cells. By targeting mitochondria,…

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