Health programs promise personalization. A new tool tests if they deliver
A UChicago researcher scored how well family health interventions tailor their first sessions—and found higher scores predicted stronger engagement a year later
First-ever cellular ‘blueprint’ for tiny C. elegans worm could hold big clues for humans
After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells connect and communicate
For millions of Americans on Medicaid, turning 19 can mean losing health coverage
A new UChicago-led study reveals a sharp spike in disenrollments, leaving young people with complex medical needs especially vulnerable
New tech shows promise for ‘engineering’ cells to prevent type 1 diabetes
Researchers at UChicago have developed a nanoparticle system that can effectively deliver mRNA to insulin-producing cells, protecting them from the body’s autoimmune response
‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was thought to exist
UChicago master’s programs in threat and response management, biomedical informatics to relaunch in fall
Programs move from Graham School to Biological Sciences Division
Scientists unearth 2.6-million-year-old hominin fossil in Ethiopia
Lower jaw of Paranthropus, discovered by UChicago-led team, reshapes understanding of early hominins
New study highlights link between eviction rates and gun violence
Research from UChicago underlines the protective role of social cohesion in disadvantaged neighborhoods
How cells ‘change their mind’ and save work in progress
New research from UChicago reveals cells routinely form structures to bundle unfinished messages
Fossil study rewrites timeline of evolution of hearing in mammals
UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear like us