University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Medical research

Targeting mitochondria in pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating disease of the lung blood vessels that causes heart failure and early death, affecting hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide. Available therapies fail to prolong ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New study may help explain low oxygen levels in COVID-19 patients

A new study published in the journal Stem Cell Reports by University of Alberta researchers is shedding light on why many COVID-19 patients, even those not in hospital, are suffering from hypoxia—a potentially dangerous ...

Cardiology

Researchers explain 38-year-old mystery of the heart

In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have explained how the function of a key protein in the heart changes ...

Oncology & Cancer

Protein causes mutations that lead to breast cancer cell aggression

Like most scientists, University of Alberta biochemist Ing Swie Goping is curious. When her team discovered that a protein was associated with poor outcomes in breast cancer patients, she wanted to know why. Now, that curiosity ...

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