News Clips | September 29, 2021

Community members gathered in a semicircle at the University’s Marriott Library’s Gould Auditorium Monday night to begin the healing process after the death of student athlete Aaron Lowe.

Frontline health care workers have been treating patients under extraordinary conditions: overcrowded ICUs, staffing shortages and intense burnout.

Across the country, doctors and nurses are dealing with hostility, threats and violence from patients angry over safety rules designed to keep the scourge from spreading.

Gene therapy research continues to deliver breakthroughs this week with the development of a CRISPR-edited droplet that could lead to a cure for heart disease and the possibility of turning glial brain cells into neurons to restore visual and motor functions.

The HerediGene: Children’s Study aims to collect 50,000 DNA samples of children (newborn to 18 years old) to help children access future treatments and possible cures for genetic disorders, based on their unique DNA.

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened mental health challenges and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports young adults are among the demographics whose mental health has been impacted.

NASA’s Fatigue Countermeasures Lab studies a variety of automated systems, but you’re probably wondering why NASA would study cars.