Pitt study reframes understanding of graft-versus-host disease
New research challenges the prevailing hypothesis for how donor stem cell grafts cause graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD, and offers an ...
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Making melanoma immortal: Pitt scientists discover key genetic step in cancer’s race to live forever
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered the missing puzzle piece in the mystery of how ...
Pitt study explains why adults’ hearts don’t regenerate
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 24, 2022 — As heart cells mature in mice, the number of communication pathways called nuclear pores dramatically ...
Investigating rare genetic mutations led Pitt scientists to surprising blood pressure discovery
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4, 2022 – The kidneys are often the unsung heroes in maintaining healthy blood pressure, filtering 180 liters ...
Pitt, Swansea physicists find signs of pentaquark states, new matter
Theorists at the University of Pittsburgh and Swansea University have shown that recent experimental results from the CERN collider give ...
Peoples Gas and Pitt partner on pilot program to evaluate the transport of hydrogen in natural gas systems
The University of Pittsburgh and Peoples Gas, an Essential Utilities company, are teaming up to explore the use of hydrogen ...
Pitt geologists mapped how metal pollutants have traveled across the city
Pittsburgh’s steel industry may be largely in the past, but its legacy lives on in city soils. New research led ...
PITT pathway: Pitt scientists discover how cells repair longevity-promoting ‘recycling system’
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 — Today in Nature, University of Pittsburgh researchers describe for the first time a pathway by ...
Nearly 108,000 overdose deaths in 2021: Pitt team forecast devastating toll five years ago
PITTSBURGH, May 24, 2022 – A grim prediction made half a decade ago by University of Pittsburgh School of Public ...
Pitt neuroscientists find multiple brain regions control speech, challenging common assumption
PITTSBURGH, May 4, 2022 – Neurobiologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine give new meaning to the term ...
Pitt study shows exercise can help older adults retain their memories
We all know exercise is good for us, but that still leaves plenty of questions. How much exercise? Who benefits ...
4 Pitt faculty members named 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows
Four faculty members from the University of Pittsburgh have been named to the most recent class of American Association for ...