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While most of their friends spent the summer relaxing or working traditional jobs, 21 college students investigated diseases including heart failure, cancer and Alzheimer’s while working with scientists at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

They are returning to class this month with their first real-world experience in a biomedical research lab.

Alex K...


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An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has been awarded a four-year National Institutes of Health grant for further studies of inflammatory bowel disease.

Sathish Srinivasan, Ph.D., hopes to better understand what role the body’s lymphatic system plays in chronic conditions like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Ultimately, the work could lead to new therap...


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As May turned to June, Emma Gu was serving on a fast-attack submarine off the Connecticut coast. Her classmate at the U.S. Naval Academy, Daotian Ma, was on a transport ship in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, at the U.S. Military Academy, Michael Golden was leading drills as a platoon sergeant.

Within days, each would temporarily trade their military uniform for a lab coa...


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The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has received a $12.8 million federal grant to continue building its Center for Cellular Metabolism Research in Oklahoma.

Awarded by the National Institutes of Health, the five-year grant is funded through the NIH’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, or COBRE. It is one of three active COBRE grants at OMRF.

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Adam’s Journal

So, ticks. I know I asked you about them a few weeks ago. But no sooner had you finished the column about Lyme disease than I started seeing things about something called alpha-gal syndrome, which apparently causes allergies to red meat.

As much as thinking about ticks gives me the creeps, I want to know more about this head-scratching condition. W...


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