Research & Discovery

UConn researcher Steven Kinsey hopes to find new chemicals inside the cannabis plant that could help relieve people's pain without the risk of addiction or abuse.

UConn Researcher Searches Cannabis Plant for New, Non-Opioid Pain Treatments

The goal of Steven Kinsey's grant-funded study is to find new chemicals inside the cannabis plant that could help relieve people's pain without the risk of addiction or abuse.

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Emma Burleigh ’21 (CLAS)

UConn rising senior Emma Burleigh is looking for a better understanding of the neuro networks for psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD, and depression.

UConn Research: More Carbon in the Ocean Can Lead to Smaller Fish

As the world's oceans absorb more carbon from human activity, one result could be smaller fish, according to UConn researchers.

UConn Researcher to Lead New Sustainable Poultry Production Project

A UConn researcher has won a $10 million federal grant to find ways to make improvements in the poultry industry.

Researcher Margaret Lloyd Sieger sitting in a garden

Meet the Researcher: Margaret Lloyd Sieger, School of Social Work

Margaret Lloyd Sieger's research is guided by her desire to help families struggling with substance abuse.

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher Rachel Bahouth ’21 (CLAS)

UConn senior Rachel Bahouth is researching parasite community composition across the geographic range of Eastern bluebirds.

Illustration of RNA polymerase II in action in yeast. RNA (ribonucleic acid) polymerase II (orange) functions in the nucleus in the process of transcription. It unwinds the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) double helix (violet), and uses its nucleotide sequence as a template to produce a strand of complementary messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA, red). RNA polymerase II recognises a start sign on the DNA strand and then moves along the strand building the mRNA until it reaches a termination signal. This single-stranded mRNA will subsequently be translated in the cytoplasm to produce a particular protein.

Massive Project to Understand Our Genes Reveals Secrets of RNA

A UConn Health lab spent five years studying human proteins as part of a massive, ongoing collaboration to identify what, exactly, every single bit of DNA and RNA in the human genome does.

Researchers Les Loew, left, and Pedro Mendes outside the Cell and Genome building at UConn Health in Farmington on July 13, 2020.

NIH Awards $6M to UConn Health Biological Computer Modeling Teams

Two computer modeling teams at UConn Health have been awarded an NIH grant totaling $6 million over five years.

A view of Branford House at the Avery Point campus, taken from the Mystic Whaler. (Nathaniel Trumbull/UConn Photo)

New Sea Grant Fellowship Supports Diverse Undergraduate Researchers

Three undergraduate students helping pave the way for greater diversity in the sciences have been chosen as the first recipients of Connecticut Sea Grant’s new summer undergraduate research fellowships for underrepresented and underserved students in marine and coastal scientific research. UConn students Andrew Tienken ’22 (CLAS)  and Larissa Tabb ’22 (CLAS) and Western Connecticut State […]

Families visit Stormy Chamberlain at her lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington

UConn Researchers Collaborate with Ovid Therapeutics on Genetic Therapy for Angelman Syndrome

UConn researchers Stormy Chamberlain and Noelle Germain are working with biopharmaceutical company Ovid Therapeutics Inc. on a promising therapy for a rare genetic condition.