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Program celebrates 20 years of changing lives for diabetics

Photo credits: Artem Podrez

Reading Time: 5 minutes Edmonton Protocol team reports treatment is safe and reliable for people with hard-to-control diabetes

A watershed moment – rethinking our relationship with water

Maricor Arlos and her students in the field (Photo: Supplied)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Maricor Arlos grew up around water, but when she came to Canada she found purpose in sustaining it

Discovery offers new clues to lichens’ evolutionary advantage

U of A researchers have revealed new insights into the symbiotic biology of lichens, which could account for their ability to survive in harsh, dry environments. (Photo courtesy Toby Spribille)

Reading Time: 3 minutes New research challenges understanding of organisms that have been textbook cases since late 1800s

Newborn dairy calves fed probiotic healthier in crucial first weeks

Maddison Degenshein found that feeding newborn calves a probiotic supplement with gut bacteria from healthy cows helped protect their health in the first weeks before their immune systems are fully developed. (Photo: Supplied)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Supplements containing beneficial gut bacteria from healthy cows could be a boon for dairy producers

Including Indigenous perspectives in conservation planning

Reading Time: 3 minutes How Indigenous and Western knowledge can be equal partners in conservation solutions

Promising chemotherapy treatment for bladder cancer enters human trials

Reading Time: 4 minutes A rejected patent application nearly derailed years of research, but support from experts saved the day

U of A spinoff, U.S. firm merge to commercialize transplant technology

Cardiac surgery professors Jayan Nagendran (left) and Darren Freed with the EVOSS system they developed to extend the time donated lungs can be kept healthy while they are transported for transplant. The innovative technology took a major step toward approval, manufacture and global distribution with the merger of the U of A spinoff company Tevosol and the U.S.-based medical tech company Bridge to Life. (Photo: University Hospital Foundation)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bridge to Life commits US$10 million to clinical trial and commercial development of Tevosol Ex-Vivo Organ Support System

Fat cells may influence how the body reacts to heart failure

Reading Time: 3 minutes Promising results in mice open door to new areas of research in treating patients with heart failure

U of A neuroscientist Maria Ioannou receives Sloan Research Fellowship

U of A neuroscientist Maria Ioannou is among the newest recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowship, given annually to exceptional early career researchers in North America with the potential to make significant contributions to their field. (Photo: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Maria Ioannou’s research focuses on new approaches to lipid biology using powerful medical imaging techniques that could shed new light on a wide variety of diseases

Potential new treatments for cardiovascular disease

Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers have identified a new mechanism responsible for the buildup of plaque on artery walls, a process known as atherosclerosis

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