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UNMC research team working on vaccine for Ebola virus

A UNMC research team has been working on one phase of a concerted U.S. effort to develop a vaccine for the Ebola virus, which has infected more than 21,000 people in West Africa and killed more than 8,600 people.

Feb 13, 2015

James Talmadge, Ph.D.

UNMC, Nebraska Medicine share Ebola expertise through online courses

UNMC and its primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, are sharing Ebola patient care and treatment best practices with hospital staff around the world through online education courses.

Feb 13, 2015

The scientist and his chicken soup

Every time cold season rolls around, so do home remedies, including Stephen Rennard, M.D., and his famous study of chicken soup.

Feb 13, 2015

Stephen Rennard, M.D., and his wife Barbara, collaborated on a study of her grandmother’s chicken soup recipe.

How Ebola works

Get inside the killer virus and learn how it succeeds in disrupting the immune system.

Feb 13, 2015

An electron micrograph (25,000x magnification) of Ebola virus particles (green) attached to, and budding from, an infected cell (blue). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Sticky cells are a sticky issue

Tight junctions and migrations of epithelial cells are under study in the College of Dentistry.

Feb 13, 2015

James Wahl, Ph.D., and dental student Elizabeth Sand.

Distinguished scientists honored

Scientists work for years, even decades, to answer the question, or hypothesis that initially put them on their research path.

Jun 3, 2014

2013 Scientist Laureate Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D.

Patient’s quest for relief from hives leads to discovery

Physician’s study of vitamin D3 treatment comes from patient suggestion.

Jun 3, 2014

Jill Poole, M.D.

New startup grows from Innovation Week connection

Three people from vastly different backgrounds invent a new tool together.

Jun 3, 2014

Anna Brynskikh Boyum demonstrates how Versatool helps a researcher keep a thin slice of frozen liver from curling or tearing so it can be placed on a slide for microscopic analysis.

Research data now flies at higher speeds

The newly created Research Information Technology Office core facility expands data storage and speeds processing.

Jun 3, 2014

Ashok Mudgapalli, Ph.D.

Drug resistance in cancer is life’s work

One researcher wants to discover why some cancer cells survive radiation or chemotherapy.

Jun 3, 2014

Aimin Peng, Ph.D.