Discover
It’s 1 o’clock in the afternoon on the first Thursday in October and there’s a delivery for research technologist James Askew in the Durham Research Center II.
Dec 18, 2012
![Shelley Smith, Ph.D., demonstrates how she loads DNA samples into the Bead Express. Her team soon will begin genotyping the samples to test for “candidate genes” of language problems.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Smith-DNA.jpg)
A native son’s journey to save young lives
When a child wakes with a raging fever, there’s a certain panic that charges through a parent’s heart.
Dec 18, 2012
![As part of a community survey for sickle cell disease,
Stephen Obaro, M.D., Ph.D., takes blood samples from
children living in Gwantu, Nigeria, during a visit last
year. Sickle cell disease is a common, inherited blood
disorder that increases susceptibility to certain types
of serious bacterial infections.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Obaro.jpg)