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Oct 17 2019

UK Partners With Bourbon Industry Leaders to Map White Oak Genome

Seth DeBolt leads the genome mapping team that includes the University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Forest Service. They are collecting grafts and acorns from the "46 Tree" to begin the research.

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Aug 26 2019
UK College of Pharmacy Hosting Symposium on Substance Use Disorder Therapeutics

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy will host its tenth annual Therapeutics, Outcomes, Discovery & Delivery (TODD) Symposium from 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in room 124 of the Lee T. Todd, Jr. Building.
May 23 2019
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf and the Epigenetics of Cancer

Could people in Eastern Kentucky, whose primary water sources have high levels of arsenic, take zinc to prevent cancer? Cancer epigeneticist Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf says her data points to this non-invasive fix.
Mar 8 2019
Michele Staton's Research Passion is Helping Incarcerated Women Address Substance Abuse

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting women of UK. Researcher and Appalachian Kentucky native Michele Staton has a passion to help incarcerated women struggling with substance abuse.

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Aug 1 2019
Record-breaking Research Awards Power UK Innovation
Apr 26 2019
Collaboration Key to Defeating Opioid Epidemic
Apr 24 2019
RX Summit Shines Light on Opioid Epidemic with Rogers’ Leadership
Apr 17 2019
One Day for UK

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UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2018
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Office of Technology Commercialization 2018 Annual Report
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UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2017

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Oct 03 2019

'Behind the Blue': How UK, State Partners Are Working to Help Incarcerated Women With Opioid Use Disorder

The Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) supports research on quality addiction treatment for OUD in criminal justice settings nationwide.

Sep 19 2019
Behind the Blue: Richard Ausness (Tackling Legal Issues of the Opioid Crisis)

Richard Ausness, UK College of Law, talks about lawsuits stemming from the opioid crisis.
Sep 19 2019
Behind the Blue: John D'Orazio and Ramon Sun (UK's Efforts to Beat Pediatric Cancer)

he world of pediatric cancer treatment has seen huge advancements in treatments over the past 60 years – in the 1950s, less than 10 percent of children were cured of their cancer. Today, the number of survivors is nearly 80 percent.
Jul 17 2019
'Behind the Blue': Randal Voss, Jeramiah Smith Discuss Axolotl Salamanders and the Keys to Human Regeneration

On this week’s episode of “Behind the Blue,” UKPR’s Amy Timoney talks with Randal Voss, a professor in the UK Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, and Jeramiah Smith, an associate professor in the UK Department of Biology, on their work assembling the axolotl genome.

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Oct 17 2019
UK Partners With Bourbon Industry Leaders to Map White Oak Genome

Seth DeBolt leads the genome mapping team that includes the University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Forest Service. They are collecting grafts and acorns from the "46 Tree" to begin the research.
Oct 10 2019
UK's Brent Seales Using Light Brighter Than the Sun to Read Herculaneum Scrolls

The UK Digital Restoration Initiative in the College of Engineering has been working to perfect a technique to non-invasively recover the 2,000-year-old fragile papyri.
Sep 26 2019
How a South Indian Script is Changing the Way Science Views Parasite

A unique partnership between an engineer and a scientist at UK has produced data that is challenging prevailing wisdom about a potentially fatal parasite.
Sep 19 2019
Fat-Absorbing XX Chromosomes Raise Heart Disease Risk in Women

New research at UK has confirmed that the presence of XX sex chromosomes increases the amount of fat circulating in the blood, which leads to narrowing of the arteries and ultimately a higher risk of heart attacks and coronary artery disease.

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