Jack Stapleton, UI professor of internal medicine and microbiology, discusses recent research showing that patients with ebola who are co-infected with another virus called GBV-C have better survival rates. His research has previously shown that co-infection with GBV-C is also associated with better survival in patients with HIV.

UI took second place in the recycling competition last year, and the Office of Sustainability is hosting a series of events to help everyone on campus step up conservation efforts—and take first place this year.

In a new study, scientists uncovered evidence that baker’s yeast cells not only extend their own lifespan in response to caloric restriction but also communicate with other cells to share the benefit of caloric restriction.

Starting from human skin cells, researchers at the University of Iowa have created human insulin-producing cells that respond to glucose and correct blood-sugar levels in diabetic mice. The findings may represent a first step toward developing patient-specific cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes.

University of Iowa researchers have found that data gathered from geostationary satellites—satellites commonly used for telecommunications and orbiting about 22,000 miles above the equator—can greatly improve air quality forecasting. Results appear in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters."

The public is invited to a free screening of "The Lion's Mouth Opens," a documentary about a woman who bravely faces a daunting life-defining moment as finds out about her genetic testing results for Huntington disease (HD), Thursday, Jan. 29, with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m and the screening beginning at 7 p.m., at the John Pappajohn Business Building, Room W10 (Buchanan Auditorium). The film...

Sraavya Undurty, a University of Iowa senior and biomedical engineering major from West Des Moines, has worked in two faculty research laboratories, helped teach an engineering class to her peers, and volunteers at UI Hospitals and Clinics, just to name a few of her many accomplishments and activities.

An implant developed at the University of Iowa offers a better option for patients with ankle problems such as 69-year-old grandfather Billy Albritton of East Peoria, Illinois. Albritton shares how since his ankle replacement surgery at UI Hospitals and Clinics in April 2013, he's back to the active lifestyle he once enjoyed.

The repository is made up of four women’s health tissue banks: Well Woman Tissue Bank, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Tissue Bank, Maternal Fetal Tissue Bank, and the Gynecologic Malignancies Tissue Bank. Samples are donated from women who are already patients at UI Women's Health Center.

An ongoing series of studies by University of Iowa researchers shows that access to a variety of specialty health care fields are more accessible than thought in rural Iowa—including oncology, urology, and now otolaryngology—but that access could be threatened depending on how health care reforms are implemented.

University of Iowa neuroscientist Daniel Tranel discusses one woman's fearlessness.

UI College of Nursing expert Krista Ford offer tips on how to shovel safely this winter, getting the benefits of physical activity without serious injury.