Every year, approximately 4,000 new cases of bone or joint-related cancer are diagnosed in the United States. Treatment and recovery can be painful — often requiring surgical removal of the...
Multimorbidity — having two or more coexisting chronic conditions — is highly prevalent, costly and disabling to older adults. Across racial and ethnic groups, multimorbidity affects older adults...
Trauma-related hemorrhage is a leading cause of death among adults under 45 years old, as well as children of all age groups. The diagnostic challenge is determining the volume of blood loss or...
In an effort to support promising early-stage technologies, Technology Transfer and Business Development created a new bimonthly grant to increase funds for technology development at OHSU. The...
A new study reports novel ways that dopamine cells influence the function of the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Anyone who has savored a bite of chocolate or glanced at each new blinking...
There is new hope that kids at risk of medically induced infertility may reproduce as adults. In a first, researchers have reported in a non-human primate model that immature testicular tissue can...
A new study in nonhuman primates finds abnormal embryos can result in successful in vitro fertilization. The chromosomal abnormality aneuploidy, in which cells have more or fewer than 46...
An OHSU-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory collaboration is key to a new identification of molecular signals specific to heart injury. Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common reasons...
Why do babies sleep so much? It turns out, a good night’s sleep, especially early in life, can have profound implications for the brain’s ability to form important social bonds throughout life,...
A new genome analysis of parrots by a collaborative team led by Claudio Mello, M.D., Ph.D., published in the journal Current Biology, reveals genes that appear to be correlated to unexpectedly long...