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NE SciFest Returns April 5-28, 2019
The statewide science festival attracted more than 24,000 attendees in 2017.
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 Award recently at the 16th Annual Spring ...
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 Educator with University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ...
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 pancreatic cancer – just not ...
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 diseases and medicine at the ...
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 regulators to rein in potentially ...
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 sipping champagne from glass beakers. ...
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 the featured speaker for the ...
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.