Archive: 04/05/2017
Pollen may impair pupils' performance
Spring is exam time – and pollen season. It's also a bad combination for pupils suffering from pollen allergies, or hay fever.
May 4, 2017
Saving lives in poor countries is about adapting to what's already working there
Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. That's more than 16,000 children every day – and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple, ...
May 4, 2017
Axon regeneration in response to nervous system injury
Alexandra Byrne, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology, is working to identify which genes control how the nervous system responds to injury. Specifically, the Byrne lab at UMMS is working to identify the genes that prevent ...
May 4, 2017