Upcoming Science Cafe Will Discuss the Science of Beer
The July Science Cafe on Tuesday, July 10, will be led by Tony Thomas and Phil Doerr, brewers at Farnam House Brewing Company. The two ...
Two UNMC Physicians Honored For Their Support of Medical Research
One of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s most dynamic couples – Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., and Alison Freifeld, M.D. – received the annual Lifesavers ...
June Science Cafe to Discuss Entymology
The upcoming Science Cafe on Tuesday, June 5, will be led by Jody Green, Ph.D., Extension Educator with University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Jonathan Larson, Ph.D., Extension ...
UNMC researcher recognized for his work on cancer of the bile ducts, which is as deadly as pancreatic cancer
via news release by UNMC Liver cancer has become fastest growing type of cancer. It’s a form of cancer that’s every bit as deadly as ...
Spring Luncheon Honors Husband and Wife Duo of Doctors
Alison Freifeld, M.D., and her husband, Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., were the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures Lifesaver Award recipients. Freifeld has been a professor of infectious ...
Miracle cures or modern quackery? Stem cell clinics multiply, with heartbreaking results for some patients.
For years, such direct-to-consumer stem cell clinics have expanded mostly unchallenged. Cases like Tyler’s, however, are prompting lawsuits and new efforts by state and federal ...
Kelly: Omaha husband-and-wife doctors win award, stress importance of medical research
At an Omaha celebration this week, husband-and-wife physicians recalled falling in love long ago at a Christmas party at the National Institutes of Health while ...
University of Minnesota ethicist sounds warning on unproven cell-based interventions
Leigh Turner, Ph.D., is speaker at Nebraska Science Festival’s Lunch and Learn event Omaha, NE – An ethicist from the University of Minnesota, Leigh Turner, Ph.D., was ...
How human embryonic stem cells sparked a revolution
After 20 years of hope, promise and controversy, human embryonic stem cells are reshaping biological concepts and starting to move into the clinic.