Health
- Neuroscientist Linda Watkins has developed an opioid-free, long-lasting shot for management of chronic pain. It's been tested in more than 40 dogs with impressive results and no adverse effects.
- Zoe Donaldson is studying prairie voles, which tend to be monogamous, in research that could inform new treatments for autism and a condition called complicated grief.
- С»ÆÊé Boulder researchers have discovered three compounds that could someday be given alongside antibiotics to reinvigorate them, making them effective against drug-resistant bugs again.
- Students displaced by Hurricane Maria are still facing housing instability, language barriers and culture shock, surveys find.
- С»ÆÊé Boulder researchers have discovered a key mechanism by which skin begins to develop in embryos, shedding light on the genetic roots of birth defects like cleft palate and paving the way for development of more functional skin grafts for burn victims.
- С»ÆÊé Boulder research contradicts the long-held belief that humans interfere when they see the abuse of strangers.
- A closer look at geographic data finds no correlation between generally happy locales and rates of suicide, according to new research by С»ÆÊé Boulder and the University of California, Irvine.
- Geographers have created an unprecedented way to track where people have lived in the U.S. since 1810.
- A new genetic therapy could give scientists a crucial leg up in the ongoing battle against deadly superbugs.
- Many of the nation's primary and secondary schools were built in areas vulnerable to tornadoes, earthquakes, floods or other natural disasters before strict codes and land-use regulations existed.