On Feb. 21, 1875, a baby girl was born in a small city called Arles in the south of France. Jeanne Calment would go on to… Read more
Category: research
Pitt Researchers Seek to Decipher Regulatory DNA Code of Human Immune Cells
Each type of cell in the human body — such as those in eye, kidney or immune cells — expresses a unique combination of genes.… Read more
Pitt Project Preps for Potential Future Pandemics
If we can see the next pandemic coming, there might be an opportunity to stop it – or at least slow the spread, jump start… Read more
Researchers Gaze into Space to Envision Future of Regenerative Medicine
About 250 miles above sea level, a unique laboratory circles the planet. Here in low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station (ISS), gravity’s tug is… Read more
UPMC-Pitt Researchers Receive Grant to Advance Liver Organoids
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Computational Biology Department have been awarded… Read more