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Science-themed art show invades ENR2

Science-themed art show invades ENR2

Connie Tran
November 17, 2015

UA undergrads take Chicago neuroscience conference by storm

Connie Tran
October 28, 2015
Courtesy of Ginny Geib

Pharmacy and graduate students gather to discuss career options

Connie Tran
October 1, 2015
Courtesy of The Gronenberg Lab

Learn about the complexities of bug brains at the Arizona Insect Festival

Connie Tran
September 18, 2015

Students spend 10 weeks delving into parasites and the Czech Republic

Connie Tran
September 9, 2015
An undergraduate student takes a selfie. Unlike the use of personal pronouns like “I,” research has shown a connection between men who frequently take selfies and narcissistic traits.

Where’s the ‘I’ in narcissism?

Connie Tran
April 30, 2015
Adrian Ostertag, a senior studying neuroscience and cognitive science, contemplates a piece of artwork at Nu Rho Psis and the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Ambassadors art showcase fundraiser on Monday in the main lobby of the Gould-Simpson building. Students and faculty submitted science-themed art for public purchase.

Scientists showcase their art

Connie Tran
April 23, 2015
Courtesy of Farah Bughio Electron micrograph images taken by Farah Bughio of vascular endothelial cells, the cells lining the surface of the heart and blood vessels, that are infected with Cytomegalovirus. Virus particles can be clearly visualized at the genome, which can be visualized as the uniform, spherical particles with the very dark dense core.

UA researchers look at herpes genetics

Connie Tran
April 2, 2015
Coutesy of Nathan Weyand Nathan Weyand, a research assistant professor at the BIO5 Institute, studies human protein recruitment by invading bacteria, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. During infection, the bacteria forms microcolonies that can protect themselves from the immune system by coating themselves with human proteins (magenta dots) they steal from the infected cell.

Bacteria hijacks body’s natural defenses to hide

Connie Tran
February 26, 2015
Courtesy of Maggie SoThis image of a cluster of Neisseria gonorrhoeae cells infecting a human epithelial cell was taken with a scanning electron microscope and appears in the journal Microbiology. The bacteria induces the host cell to produce noodle-like projections callled microvilli that wrap around the bacteria and interact with it.

Host cell and STD co-exist

Connie Tran
February 12, 2015
Courtesy of David G. Armstrong David G. Armstrong, director of Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance and a professor of surgery at the UA, in the SALSA Clinic with patient Pearl Badman in 2013. SALSA researchers and clinicians have developed Smart Socks, which will alert patients smart phones when ulcers are about to develop.

Socks save diabetic’s limbs

Connie Tran
January 29, 2015
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