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UConn Health Researcher Receives Patent for Cancer-fighting Antibody

A UConn Health researcher has been awarded a patent stemming from research into cancer-fighting antibodies.

October 5, 2020 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research

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UConn Funds Five COVID-19 Research Projects, Announces Additional Funding

The Office of the Vice President has announced five awards to researchers as part of its new internal funding program to address the urgent needs presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 2, 2020 | Jessica McBride, PhD

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Laguna La Brava in Chile, where UConn researcher Pieter Visscher found clues that help explain how early life on Earth used arsenic to survive.

Ancient Microbial Life Used Arsenic to Thrive in a World Without Oxygen

Researchers traveled to a landscape in Chile similar in some ways to Mars to learn how life existed on Earth before oxygen.

October 2, 2020 | Pieter Visscher, University of Connecticut Brendan Paul Burns, University of New South Wales Kimberley L. Gallagher, Quinnipiac University