Research & Discovery

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Two CAHNR Faculty Among World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers

This is the sixth year in a row Zhe Zhu has been on this list, while Yangchao Luo has been named six times since 2019

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Ambitious Experiment Discovers ‘Flipped’ Genetic Secrets of a Small Fish

A grueling road trip led to an extraordinary experiment at UConn’s Rankin Seawater lab that discovered how inverted chromosomal segments help Atlantic silversides adapt

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Studying ‘Creatures Great and Small’ as a Veterinary Pathologist

As a veterinary pathologist, Natalie Tocco has had the opportunity to study creatures great and small herself – from black bears, to beluga whales, to elephants, and invertebrates

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UConn Health Hosts 63rd CT High School Science and Humanities Symposium

Top finishers will be recognized at the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering’s annual meeting this spring

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Study: Sympathy Works Best on Health Warnings

UConn professor's research pit narrative versus nonnarrative pictorial warning labels against one another and measured their emotive effects

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BMT Nurses Shine at 2026 Tandem Meetings

Three nurses of The Blood and Marrow Transplantation team at UConn Health presented the program’s latest research findings in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Better Than Penicillin

Replacing the world's wonder drug with something bacteria can't resist

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Unveiling the Hidden Heart of the Milky Way

'Our group will be unraveling this rich dataset for years'

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International Postdocs at UConn Pioneer New Frontiers in Drug and Vaccine Delivery 

Together they are developing technologies that make treatments safer, more precise, and more accessible worldwide

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mRNA’s Matryoshka Move

Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece