Health
Federal regulators approved the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive. CU 抖阴传媒在线鈥檚 Amanda Stevenson says the impacts could be sweeping. But she cautions that real threats to contraceptive access in the U.S. still exist.
In the wake of the devastating Marshall Fire, a team of chemists and engineers from CU 抖阴传媒在线 undertook a first-of-its-kind study to explore homes that survived the blaze. Their results reveal the potential health hazards that wildfires can leave behind in buildings.
Maciej Walczak, CU 抖阴传媒在线 associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.
New research shows that cancer cells can adapt in as little as one to two hours to new drugs called CDK2 inhibitors. The good news: Adding a second, widely available drug disables this workaround, squelching tumor growth.
An ancient, virus-like protein best known for its essential role in placental development may, when over-expressed, fuel ALS鈥攁ka Lou Gehrig's disease鈥攁nd other neurodegenerative diseases, according to new research. The discovery opens the door to a new class of potential treatments.
A revolutionary technique for editing genomes, called CRISPR-Cas9, has already helped cure sickle cell disease in dozens of people. But it also raises ethical concerns, which a panel of preeminent scientists grappled with at an event on the CU 抖阴传媒在线 campus.
A study led by a CU 抖阴传媒在线 researcher finds that flavored tobacco products reduce the likelihood of cessation later, but researchers say more investigation is needed.
A new study led by Angela Bryan, a CU 抖阴传媒在线 professor and cancer survivor, is among the first to assess how cannabis bought over the counter at dispensaries鈥攔ather than government-supplied or synthetic varieties鈥攊mpacts cancer symptoms or chemotherapy side effects.
The study of 46 million births across nearly three decades is among the first to provide population-level statistical evidence of 鈥渙bstetric racism,鈥 a term coined recently to describe a concerning pattern of maltreatment of non-white pregnant women, including a disregard for their birthing wishes.
Imagine carrying a UV device in your backpack and pulling it out to disinfect your bus seat or restaurant table. A new CU 抖阴传媒在线 study shows that using a technology called Far UV-C kills almost 100%聽of pathogens within a few seconds, without risk to human bystanders.