Academic Medicine: Is It for Me?
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and with its 7th Match Day around the corner, the…
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Nanotechnology: Science Fiction Turned Reality
A few years ago, the concept of nanoscience would have seemed so fictional that Steven Spielberg would have done an outstanding job curating it…
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Fatty Acids Induce Inflammation in Blood Vessels
The rising rate of obesity in the United States is a growing concern for American healthcare. The prevalence of obesity from 2011-2014 among U.S….
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Antibiotic-Releasing Nanofiber Coating: An End to Biofilm Infections?
Every year, more than one million knee replacement surgeries are done in the United States, and approximately one to two percent of these procedures…
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Experiencing Touch in an Innovative Way
“I can feel just about every finger—it’s a really weird sensation,” Mr. Copeland said a month after surgery. Mr. Copeland’s regained ability to feel…
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Vitiligo: Is It a Big Deal?
Somewhere in an undiscovered margin or appendix of our medical textbooks, we will find a sentence or two on a disease called vitiligo. In…
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Ready for the Robots?
When I was little, my concept of robots was deeply rooted in what I saw on TV: large hunks of metal roaming the streets, leaving…
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Bench to Bedside: An Update on Stem Cell Research
The history of organ transplant and stem cell research is rich in optimism, yielding promising results from in vitro and animal model studies that…
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Maximizing the Efficacy of the Immune System in the Battle Against Cancer
The history of immunotherapy in tumor suppression dates back to the early 1900s when the pioneer of the field, Paul Ehrlich, in his study…
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Using Smartphones to Detect Toxic Gas Leaks
In October 2015, the blowout of a wellhead connected to a vast underground storage system for natural gas near the Porter Ranch community in…
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