Unexpected directions: Diabetes treatments may help polycystic kidney disease...
Do medications developed to treat type II diabetes offer hope for patients with polycystic kidney disease? An IUPUI campus collaboration of IU School of Medicine and Purdue School of Science...
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A new tool coming to keep toxoplasmosis at bay?
Take you, me and someone sitting near you at lunch. Chances are at least one of us has Toxoplasma parasites in the brain, alive but safely inactivated by the immune system. But if the immune system is...
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Alzheimer’s research, one step at a time
One of the news items from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston on Tuesday was that IU School of Medicine’s Debomoy Lahiri, Ph.D., and his colleagues reported that when they...
View ArticleClosing in on a blood test for suicide risk
Alexander B. Niculescu III, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and medical neuroscience, continues to explore “the genomic and phenomic landscape of psychiatric disorders.” His newest work,...
View ArticleYou’re invited…
So, what are you doing Friday afternoon? Here’s a suggestion: Head over to Goodman Hall, the IU Health Neurosciences building, where Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) will be...
View ArticleBudget battles and research impact
Remember the good ol’ days, just before and after the turn of the century when the National Institutes of Health budget was doubled by Congress? Well that was then and now, thanks to flat budgets,...
View ArticleSound Medicine second chance
Don’t forget, if you missed listening to the excellent IUSM-WFYI radio show, Sound Medicine, on Sunday, you’ve got another opportunity tonight 9 p.m. on 90.1 FM. This week’s show features some good...
View ArticleSmoking, addiction and the mentally ill
People diagnosed with mental illnesses smoke at very high rates, but why? The conventional wisdom has been that they are self-medicating. At IUSM’s Institute of Psychiatric Research Andy Chambers and...
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From psoriasis to diabetes
Back in June we announced the first year results of a clinical trial in which alefacept, a drug originally sold to treat psoriasis, showed significant promise in blocking the progression of type 1...
View ArticleYour face tells if you are sick
“A sick person has no poker face,” says IU School of Medicine emergency department physician Jeffrey Kline in a fascinating TEDx Indianapolis talk. “By using our instincts physicians can determine...
View ArticleNew technologies to study traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injuries frequently leave patients with problems both understanding others’ — and their own — emotions and controlling their emotional expressions. Now the newly opened IU InterFACE...
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Making a better mouse (model)
Mouse models of human disease are often key parts of biomedical research because they give scientists an opportunity to understand the origins and progression of a disease and begin testing potential...
View ArticleIUPUI Research Day is this Friday
One thing that’s certain about research on this (or any) campus is that there’s a great mass of unknown work going on, some of which could be interesting or even vital, to someone else on campus, if...
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Oregon and Medicaid: Get good perspective
Aaron Carroll While Hoosiers wait to see whether, or to what extent, Indiana will implement the expansion of Medicaid with federal funding under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), a study of the...
View ArticleWhat’s a CIIS? Malaz Boustani explains
The new Center for Innovation and Implementation Science at Indiana University School of Medicine came online late in 2013, created to bring new health care solutions to the bedside faster and cheaper....
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Unveiling the epigenetics of heart disease
Indianapolis can’t offer a nearby ocean, scenic bay or mountains, but new IU School of Medicine physician-scientist Ching-Pin Chang, M.D., Ph.D, says it’s offered something more important — the...
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Translating science to scientists
So I headed out of my ink-stained office in the third floor of the ACME building over to Research 2 to meet Jie and Henrique — I’d heard they had new gigs with Science Translational Medicine. They were...
View ArticleBiological microscopy, explained
How can researchers get images and videos of activities in living cells? Kenneth Dunn, scientific director of the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy, tells all. It’s impressive stuff, and it’s...
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