Research & Discovery

Axiom Space Astronauts Perform Life-Saving Nanomaterial Experiments for UConn’s Biomedical Engineering Researchers

Axiom Space and Eascra Biotech plan to create a manufacturing facility for therapeutic biomaterials in space.

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Abortion Infodemic: Allied Health Science Researchers Describe a Troubling Information Landscape

A team of UConn researchers explores the disinformation landscape after Roe v. Wade was overturned

Innovation at UConn Health: Meet Basic Scientist Kimberly Dodge-Kafka, Ph.D.

“My big hope is to develop a new type of beta-blocker drug for humans that can block or reverse heart disease progression so patients can live a better, fuller, and longer life,” says Dodge-Kafka, a recent recipient of a large multimillion dollar NIH grant to grow her novel cardiac cell signaling research.

Taiwan has some of the world’s fastest rates of mountain building. Studying the mountains of Taiwan provides insight into how the mountains are formed and grow. This view is st Hualien, Taiwan.

Research in a Place Where Geological Processes Happen Before Your Eyes

UConn researchers use ancient plant leaf wax – signatures for what happened millions of years ago -- to reconstruct the history of Taiwan's mountains

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Ph.D. Student Helps Protect Long Island Sound’s Marshes

With the Long Island Sound at particular risk, UConn researchers are using a method called thin layer placement to gradually increase marsh elevation

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UConn Researchers Join NASA-Funded International Biodiversity Monitoring Project

The BioSCape project is NASA’s first-ever biodiversity field program combining airborne spectroscopy, LIDAR, and field observations across South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, home to two global biodiversity hotspots rich with flora and marine species found nowhere else on Earth

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Researchers Sniff Out How Ants Weed their Fungus Gardens

Chemicals called peptaibols help ants keep diseased fungus out of their habitat

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Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer Space

UConn researchers have performed one of the largest understory species mapping projects to date, and the findings are both surprising and promising

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Microscopy on Ice with UConn Health’s New Cryogenic Equipment

Cryogenic electron microscopy, which can produce 3D pictures of minute quantities of biological material, is a new forefront of research capabilities at UConn School of Medicine

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International Recognition for UConn Health’s Sara Olson

Genetics and genome sciences research associate wins RNA Society’s 2023 Outstanding Career Researcher Award