A newly discovered genetic abnormality that appears to prevent some men from conceiving children could be the key to developing a male contraceptive, said University of Iowa researchers who reported their findings in the April 2 online edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics.
Congratulations to Pamela Pretorius (Val Sheffield/Diane Slusarski lab) "A vision specific roll for the newly identified BBS3 (ARL6) long isoform in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome" and Shyam Ramachandran (Paul McCray Lab), "MicroRNA Expression and Function in Airway Epithelium", winning posters at 2009 Research Week, April 14, 2009.
Anne Kwitek, Ph.D., faculty member in the UI Carver College of Medicine, has received a Young Scholars Award from the American Society of Hypertension. "UI scientist honored for hypertension research"
University of Iowa professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., and Harvard Medical School professor and HHMI investigator Louis Kunkel, Ph.D., are co-recipients of the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for identifying genetic and molecular causes of muscular dystrophies, a group of disorders in which muscles progressively degenerate.
