Farnham Lab helps create landmark genetic roadmap

Keck Medicine of USC researchers in the lab of Peggy Farnham, PhD, were key participants in the recent publication of a landmark collection of scientific papers related to mapping the DNA and histone modifications in human epigenomes and the ways Read More »

March 15th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Drug reverses vision loss in people with diabetic eye disease

A prescription drug commonly used to treat age-related vision loss also reverses vision loss caused by diabetes, according to a new study led by investigators from the USC Eye Institute.

Rohit Varma Rohit Read More »

March 14th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Researchers grow functional intestine from human cells

A new study by researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has shown that small intestine grown from human cells replicates key aspects of a functioning human intestine.

The small intestine they developed contains important elements of the mucosal lining and Read More »

March 14th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Hero of your own health story

Two physician faculty leaders from Keck Medicine of USC presented their script for living longer and living better on March 5 at the 2015 USC Women’s Conference.

Leslie Saxon, MD, professor of medicine and clinical scholar, and colleague Laura Mosqueda, MD, Read More »

March 13th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Low sugar uptake in brain appears to exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease

A deficiency in the protein responsible for moving glucose across the brain’s protective blood-brain barrier appears to intensify the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

The research suggests that targeting Read More »

March 13th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|