Just last year, Danny JJ Wang, PhD, director of imaging technology innovation at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (USC INI) and his team at the start-up company Hura … Read More »
Since they hit the market, e-cigarettes have been touted as a safe alternative to tobacco cigarettes for adult smokers. When research began to suggest otherwise, many questioned whether smoking was still to blame for adverse effects, since most vapers are … Read More »
When Cristina Carlos embarked on opening New Familia Health Support Services in L.A.’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, she looked to fill the void in prenatal and post-partum care for women, particularly those in traditionally underserved communities.
She also set out to … Read More »
USC Student Health’s Sarah Van Orman and Deona Willes of USC Environmental Health and Safety offer these thoughts on safety enjoying the upcoming holidays:
Getting a booster shot for COVID-19 is strongly recommended. With the combination of colder weather keeping people indoors, the … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC and Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia have submitted formal written notice of their proposed affiliation to the Office of the Attorney General of California for regulatory review and approval.
“We are … Read More »
USC Stem Cell postdoctoral trainee Aswathy Ammothumkandy vividly recalls when the tour guide shared the story of Dolly the cloned sheep during her ninth-grade field trip to the regional science center in her home town of Kozhikode, India. From that … Read More »
USC leaders have named radiologist and nuclear medicine doctor Carolyn C. Meltzer as dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Currently the William P. Timmie Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at … Read More »
Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy. To carry out these behaviors, each cancer cell uses its genes to … Read More »
On Nov. 3, Nature Communications published research by Steve Kay, PhD, DSc, director of convergent biosciences and university professor of neurology, biomedical engineering and quantitative and computational biology, and Meng Qu, PhD, research associate in the Kay Laboratory, revealing the molecular mechanisms underlying … Read More »
Exposure to loud noise, such as a firecracker or an ear-splitting concert, is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss. Research suggests that 12% or more of the world population is at risk for noise-induced loss of hearing.
Loud sounds … Read More »
USC has been awarded a $5 million training grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to prepare PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical fellows for careers in stem cell research. CIRM also approved 17 other … Read More »
For the fifth consecutive time, Keck Hospital of USC earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization, for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety.
“This rating places Keck Hospital among the … Read More »
Just over a decade ago, USC was a university with a few scattered stem cell biologists, and a vision for total transformation. The university was committed to designing a unique “incubator” for researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of … Read More »
Throughout her career, Saks has written extensively on the intersection of mental health and law, and has received many honors, including a 2009 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a “Genius Grant.” The prestigious Pardes Humanitarian Prize was awarded to three … Read More »
Alzheimer’s disease and the urgent need for more effective treatments have been making headlines this year, with the FDA approving limited use of a new drug for the first time in nearly two decades. We recently sat down with Lon … Read More »
About 80 million Americans have fatty liver disease unrelated to alcohol abuse. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with obesity and diabetes, and can lead to more severe liver damage such as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis and liver cancer. … Read More »
Despite widespread access, there are still wide discrepancies in COVID-19 vaccine coverage in communities across the U.S. Researchers with the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and Johns Hopkins University assessed the relationship between county COVID-19 vaccination rates … Read More »
USC Research Professor Skip Rizzo thought his mother might like a trip to Rome.
She put on a virtual reality headset, and soon her face was aglow: “Oh! Carl and I used to love this little bar that was right … Read More »
A decade ago, genome sequencing revealed a big surprise: about 50 percent of human cancers are linked to mutations in what are known as epigenetic regulators, which control the activity of genes.
Cataloguing the brain’s many billions of cells is no small feat, but it’s an ambitious goal of the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative. To that end, the BRAIN Initiative launched its Cell Census Network (… Read More »