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New nanoparticles deliver therapy brain-wide, edit Alzheimer’s gene in mice
Shaoqin "Sarah" Gong and her lab have developed a way to move therapies across the brain’s protective membrane to deliver brain-wide therapy with a range of biological medications and treatments.
Yin is part of a grant to create and study a “digital twin” of the urinary tract
Yin and collaborating researchers are building the model to investigate how the nervous system and urinary tract are connected.
Drying process could be key step in the development of life
PhD student Hayley Boigenzahn and professor John Yin can explain how one of the potentially crucial early steps on the path of life could have happened. They published their findings in the Dec. 2022 issue of the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.
WID Graduate Student is December Graduation Student Speaker
From high school dropout to PhD: The unlikely journey of student commencement speaker and Saha Lab member Kirstan Gimse
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