Fighting Human Disease With Birth Control… For Mosquitoes

BIO5 member Dr. Roger Miesfeld, a UA Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and researchers in his lab, have discovered a protein that prevents mosquitoes from hatching, opening the possibility of developing new drugs that could act as birth control for mosquito populations.

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Developing An Attosecond Snapshot

BIO5's Dr. Mohammed Hassan, UA Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences, wants the UA to be the first place where humans take a photo of an electron in motion. Thanks to $1.75M in grants, Hassan says he will make that happen in the coming years.

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What Deep Breathing Does To Your Body

Dr. Esther Sternberg, BIO5 member and Research Director for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, explains how the body's relaxation response, activated through deep-breathing, can oppose its stress response. "Deep-breathing turns on the vagus nerve enough that it acts as a brake on the stress response," says Dr. Sternberg.

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Optogenetics Device Provides Targeted Control Over Light Delivered To Neurons

Research from the UA College of Engineering shows a way for light to control neurons in the brain, which may lead to doctors being able to turn off pain receptors or reduce the effects of neurological disorders. UA Biomedical Engineering Professor and BIO5 member, Dr. Philipp Gutruf, recently published a paper in the science journal Nature Electronics about his work with an implantable, battery-free, light-emitting diode.

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UA Team Uncovers Promising Lead In Genetic Approach To Treating Glioblastoma

A team of UA scientists hope they have made progress toward a next-generation drug that may slow tumor growth and boost radiation’s effectiveness in patients with glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer. The team includes BIO5 member Dr. Michael Hammer, Co-Director of the UA Cancer Center Genomics Shared Resource.