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May 4, 2021

340B hospitals offer more assistance removing barriers to medication access

New study shows more pharmacy medication access services available at some hospitals

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February 16, 2021

UIC researchers invent new gene-editing tool

New process uses special molecules called ‘proGuides’

Graphic abstract from "Dynamic Instability from Non-equilibrium Structural Transitions on the Energy Landscape of Microtubule" in Cell Systems (Image: Stewman, et al)

February 15, 2021

Researchers describe how microtubules assemble, disassemble for the first time

Research provides a new foundation for developing new drugs for neurological conditions

September 16, 2020

One in 10 older dental patients inappropriately prescribed opioids

Combinations with psychiatric meds among most dangerous

Richard Novak

August 24, 2020

UIC vaccine study opens today

First Chicagoans participate in national clinical trial

June 4, 2020

Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics at UIC receives $8M from NIH

Continued research will test alcohol effects on whole epigenome and brain function

Blood drive

April 22, 2020

UI Health selected as first Vitalant convalescent plasma partner

Convalescent plasma collection, treatments begin this week

Mark Rasenick

April 21, 2020

A biological mechanism for depression

Location of a modified structural protein may identify depressed individuals

Ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

April 2, 2020

UIC clinical trials investigate COVID-19 treatments

Trials study Ebola, rheumatoid arthritis drugs in hospitalized patients

Fluorescence microscopy image of the lung with blood vessel endothelial.

February 13, 2020

UIC researchers find unique organ-specific signature profiles for blood vessel cells

Probing the molecular biology of blood vessels in the heart, brain and lungs