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Daily HeadlinesFebruary 5, 2018

Bone-forming cells inside a living bone from a newborn mouse. The cells were engineered to contain a fluorescent green protein that senses cyclic GMP, a molecule that stimulates bone growth. In a recently published study in eLife, Leia Shuhaibar and others at UConn Health showed that these cells produce less cyclic GMP under conditions that resemble those in people with achondroplasia (dwarfism). Understanding how cyclic GMP production is regulated could contribute to improved therapies for achondroplasia.

Fertility Study Offers Unexpected Lead on Dwarfism

In the most common type of dwarfism, the fibroblast growth factor receptor is always 'on' so bones don’t grow enough. UConn Health researchers found a way to block that function in the lab. Read more.

UConn's time-honored tradition of eating ice cream outside in the middle of winter dates back to the 1970s. (Eric Yang '21 (ACES)/UConn Photo)

Tons of Ice Cream

UConn's time-honored tradition of eating ice cream outside in the middle of winter. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

NUR Program Seeks to Bring Best of Nursing and Business to Long-Term Health Care Management

UConn in the News

Newsday

More colleges create support, opportunity for students with autism

National Geographic

Watch Pigcasso, the Famous Painting Pig, at Work

BuzzFeed

14 Fierce College Mascots Who Are Actually Good Boys

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