UI chemist Sara Mason has won a grant to access a supercomputer network funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Mason’s group will use its time to better define the atom-to-atom interactions of various nanoparticles, hoping to learn more about the particles’ effects on energy, the environment, and human health.

The first controlled clinical trial of a newly discovered form of vitamin B3, nicotinamide riboside (NR), has shown that the compound is safe for humans. The study also shows NR increases levels of a cell metabolite that is critical for cellular energy production and protection against stress and DNA damage.

Studies have proven that music can lift a patient's mood, help manage stress and agitation and facilitate cognitive function and help with motor movements. Now, researchers at the University of Iowa are measuring the impact music has on the health outcomes of Alzheimer's patients in Iowa City.

Medical 21, a Minnesota company founded by University of Iowa benefactor Manny Villafana, has licensed technology to create artificial veins developed at the UI College of Engineering.

Music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernandez and neurologist Dan Tranel have teamed up to measure the impact music has on the health outcomes of Alzheimer’s patients in Iowa City. River to River host Ben Kieffer talks with Reschke-Hernandez and Tranel about the connections between music and the brain.

The grant, called a Special Interests Project (SIP), is awarded by the Prevention Research Centers program office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Kamal Rahmouni, professor of pharmacology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been awarded the 2016 Paul Korner Award by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH).

Working with cystic fibrosis (CF) pigs, researchers based in the University of Iowa Pappajohn Biomedical Institute have shown that two different virus-based vectors can restore the function of a faulty protein involved with CF symptoms.

Officials with Iowa’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and other Related Disabilities (LEND) program at the Center for Disabilities and Development at University of Iowa Children’s Hospital announced that the program has received a five-year, $3.1 million award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Meet Kinzie Hemann, Parker Kress, Abigail Hooper, and Liam Young—the first four Kid Captains of 2016.

Insects are tough animals to study. One reason is their armor-like coating, called an exoskeleton, which protects their organs. Researchers have discovered a technique to open the exoskeleton in order to study living organs and cells.

The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., in Iowa City.