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Infection: A Disaster Movie for Gut Microbes?
Imagine if your comfortable existence was suddenly and traumatically disrupted by a disaster. Your home is destroyed, food becomes scarce, and social structures suddenly break down. Even the most...
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A Swine Solution to the Royal Disease
“A pox of this gout! or a gout of this pox! for the one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.” – Falstaff, Henry IV Gout was once called “the king of diseases and the disease of kings.”...
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The Elderly Advantage in Fighting Flu
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic, better known as the season of swine flu, was not like other flu seasons of recent vintage. A typical seasonal strain of influenza is most deadly at the extremities of age, with...
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A Pritzker Grad Joins the Nobel Club
The University of Chicago can fill a couple of classrooms with all of the Nobel Laureates affiliated with the school, from Milton Friedman to Saul Bellow to Barack Obama. After Monday, a third room...
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The Viruses Hidden Within Us
By Meghan Sullivan What is it about viruses that so easily captures our attention? With the teeth mostly taken out of bacterial infections by the advent of penicillin and parasites a rare and mostly...
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The Gut’s Tenants and Food Allergies
If you are an avid reader of food packaging materials or a parent of an elementary school student, you might get the feeling that food allergies are on the rise. Statistics back up this notion, with...
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Food Allergies vs. Food Intolerance
By Matt Wood Adverse reactions to foods, including eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, shellfish and soy, are on the rise, especially among children. The CDC reports (PDF) that between 1997 and...
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The Social Ladder’s Genetic Footprint
Photo courtesy Yerkes National Primate Research Center By Rob Mitchum From the teenage years through adulthood, people spend a lot of time worrying about their social status. Whether measured in wealth...
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Donald Rowley, MD, 1923-2013
Donald Rowley, MD, a pioneer in discovering how the immune system functions and the inventor of the gel electrode, a crucial tool that monitors cardiac activity, died at his home early Sunday, Feb. 24,...
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LabBook March 8, 2013
Photo by Rifat Hasina via the UChicago Snow on Campus album Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the...
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Childhood asthma tied to combination of genes and wheezing illness
Carole Ober, PhDAsthma is an extremely common disease among children: More than 7.1 million children in the United States have asthma, almost 10 percent. While nothing can prevent the onset of asthma...
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LabBook April 5, 2013
We’re fired up for the start of the baseball season, and so is Southpaw, pictured here with kids at Woodlawn School kicking off our season-long partnership with the White Sox. (photo by Bruce Powell)...
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The Big Picture for the Microbiome
Jack Gilbert, PhD, at the Discovery & Impact event on the microbiome on May 1, 2013 “Every single one of you has 100 trillion bacterial cells on you, and those 100 trillion cells are found all over...
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Hiding In Plain Sight: How Tumors Evade Our Immune System
A scanning electron micrograph of a human T cell (image via the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease) Spontaneous remissions—when a cancer goes away on its own, with no help from...
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An Overactive Protein That Explains Chronic Inflammation In Autoimmunity And...
A scanning electron micrograph of a human T cell (image via the National Institutes of Aging and Infectious Disease) Normally, inflammation in the gut is elevated through the action of certain types of...
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The Viruses Hidden Within Us
By Meghan Sullivan What is it about viruses that so easily captures our attention? With the teeth mostly taken out of bacterial infections by the advent of penicillin and parasites a rare and mostly...
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How Immune Cells Tell Healthy And Diseased Cells Apart
Video of a T-cell, a type of white blood cell, attacking a cancer cell (via Cambridge University) Gobbling up bad bacteria isn’t the only critical job that phagocytes, a class of amoeba-like white...
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Gebhard Schumacher, 1924-2014
Gebhard Schumacher, MDGebhard Schumacher, MD, professor emeritus in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a former section chief of reproductive biology at the University of Chicago, died at...
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Filtering the Flood of Medical Social Media
By Matt Wood It’s hard to avoid consumer advertising for prescription medications. Flip open a magazine and you’re likely to see a picture of a middle-aged couple, sitting in matching bathtubs, hawking...
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New Drugs on the Way to Treat Seasonal Allergies
Now that it’s almost summer, chances are you’ve already had a run-in with allergies. The sneezing, the itching, the watery eyes, the snot (oh man, the snot); they’re all symptoms of what’s known as...
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