Human Nature News from the Chronicles


'The Future of Food' workshop, Oct.1

As world population stretches past seven billion, many questions come to the fore about how to support so many people. For example, what if everyone elsewhere in the world consumed meat at the rate of the developed world? Does growing crops for transportation fuel put pressure on food crops? To…

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,…
cell structure graphic on greg background

Cell signaling iBook features faculty partnership from across campus

 

Sperduto Professor Lawrence Sweet

Lots of great coverage of the Franklin College in Columns this week, including a nice front page story on new faculty member Lawrence Sweet: A clinical neuropsychologist whose research explores the relationship between physical changes in the brain and conditions as diverse as dementia, nicotine…

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