Research
Researchers discover critical process for how breast cancer spreads in bones
Once breast cancer spreads to bone, options for treatment are limited. Breast cancer cells can lie dormant in the bone, often undetectable and able to escape typical treatments....
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Episode 2: The Historical Jesus
What can truly be known about Jesus, and how can we read accounts about him in a reasonable way? Does a critical understanding of the historical Jesus complicate or nourish...
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Food and Thought
A look at ideas that are addressing major food-related problems: A potential breakthrough on peanut allergies. Learn more about how Basar Bilgicer, associate professor of...
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Study of the nervous system could have implications for regenerative medicine and cancer
In order for the central nervous system (CNS) to communicate to the rest of the body, the brain and spinal cord house nerves that send and receive signals via neurons or nerve...
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Domer Dozen 2019 Honoree: Adebola Giwa ’09
Dr. Adebola Giwa ’09 works as a pediatric endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center as part of a team that is researching a potential cure for type 1 diabetes. Dr....
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First Light
Scientists are one step closer to discovering life on other planets. A team of engineers and astrophysicists has installed the front-end module of a new instrument named iLocater...
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Mosquitoes are a major global health threat and Notre Dame researchers are fighting back
More than a million people die from diseases spread by mosquitoes each year. Malaria is one of the biggest culprits, with an estimated 219 million new cases of the disease each...
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How Does Stress Affect How We Age?
For over 10 years, the Notre Dame Study of Health and Well-being at the University of Notre Dame has studied stress and its impact on health and aging. Through the project,...
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A Remedy for Battered Hearts
How do you represent resilience? Is it Rosie the Riveter, her bicep flexed? Is it a diamond, one of the hardest substances on Earth? Or does resilience resemble hope, which Emily...
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Family Links and Finding the Sweet Spot
When the 40th U.S. Senior Open began with practice rounds on June 24, 2019, it marked the first time in its history the event was being played at a collegiate golf course. Yet as...
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Memory As We Grow Older
In this seminar from Reunion 2019, Professor Joshua Koen discusses recent research on memory and aging, and shares tips on what does (and doesn’t) aid memory later in life.
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Lunar Samples, and Rome Studies 50th Anniversary
We chat with Notre Dame geologist and moon expert Clive Neal, who is part of a team that will examine previously sealed lunar samples obtained during the Apollo missions. Note:...
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