Study: Daily Exposure To Blue Light May Accelerate Aging
Prolonged exposure to blue light, such as that which emanates from your phone, computer and household fixtures, could be affecting your longevity, even if it’s not shining in your eyes.
Steve Lundeberg
OSU Will Help Shepherd Big Data Cancer Project
Oregon State University has been awarded $8.8 million to help lead a 3½-year effort to make the volumes of data arising from cancer research more accessible, organized and powerful.
Research: Dentists Overprescribe Antibiotics
CORVALLIS – Antibiotics prescribed by dentists as a preemptive strike against infection are unnecessary 81% of the time, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.
Prescriptions Written By Pharmacists Reducing Risk Of Unwanted Pregnancies
CORVALLIS – A 2016 Oregon law allowing pharmacists to write birth control prescriptions is helping more women at risk for unintended pregnancies to use contraception, new research by Oregon State University suggests.
OSU Joins $10 million Grant on Gonorrhea Vaccine
An Oregon State University scientist is part of a $10.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a vaccine for gonorrhea.
Taking Stressors in Stride Could Preserve Brain Health
A researcher at Oregon State University found that it's not the stress itself but a person's emotional reaction to it that can affect their brain health later in life.
Taking typical daily annoyances such as a long wait at the doctor’s office or a traffic jam on the freeway in stride may help preserve brain health in older adults, while emotional reactions could contribute to declines in cognition, a new study from Oregon State University has found.
Researchers Identify Factors Behind Cases of Small-Intestine inflammation
Oregon State University scientists looked at factors linked to cases of common variable immunodeficiency, which afflicts thousands of people worldwide and often prevents them from absorbing nutrients.
Oregon State University researchers have discovered two key factors behind the intestinal inflammation that plagues people suffering from a disorder that affects their immune system.
Gonorrhea Researchers Identify Novel Approach to Vaccine
Scientists at Oregon State University have identified a protein that could help fight the disease, which has become resistant to antibiotics, posing a potential public health threat.
Researchers have identified a protein that powers the virulence of the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, opening the possibility of a new target for antibiotics and, even better, a vaccine.
Schizophrenics’ Blood has More Genetic Material from Microbes
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The blood of schizophrenia patients features genetic material from more types of microorganisms than that of people without the debilitating mental illness, research at Oregon State University has found.
Researchers Take Key Step Toward Growing Human Organs in Laboratory
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels, blood cells and immune cells, pushing science one step closer to generating body parts in a laboratory.
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