Health
- A new study involving С»ÆÊé Boulder and North Carolina State University highlights the diversity of arthropods found in homes across the United States, a big step in improving our understanding of how bugs like spiders, cockroaches and beetles may
- С»ÆÊé Boulder to lead $15.3 million initiative for sustainable water and sanitation for developmentThe University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in the developing world.
- With possible implications for a better understanding of cancer and neurodegenerative conditions, a new study for the first time shows the final stages of how mitochondria, found in nearly all living cells, divide and propagate.
- Researchers designed a clever treadmill-based study to demonstrate that running times slow as running shoes increase in weight, even if only by a few ounces.​ (Audio interview available.)
- Under a new $2 million grant, С»ÆÊé Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence will work with Colorado-based Mental Health Partners to increase the capacity to identify children and families who have experienced trauma and provide evidence-based trauma-focused treatment. The project is expected to support more than 900 clinicians, and serve over 3,100 clients.
- Black and Latino Coloradans are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system, according to a new Rocky Mountain PBS documentary, A Sentenced Life. Beverly Kingston, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at С»ÆÊé Boulder, contributed her research on social disorganization theory and appeared in the film.
- University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a brain signature that identifies fibromyalgia sufferers with 93 percent accuracy, a potential breakthrough for future clinical diagnosis and treatment of the highly prevalent condition.
- A new С»ÆÊé Boulder study shows preschoolers consume more calories than normal when they don't get enough sleep, findings that have implications for childhood obesity risk.
- A gene in a type of yeast that has long been used in baking, brewing and winemaking may have positive implications for human health. Essentially, the gene in the ingested yeast can recognize and destroy attacking viruses within the human host.
- The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder has received a five-year $5.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its youth violence prevention work in two Denver neighborhoods.