The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences has achieved its highest ranking ever in National Institutes of Health funding awarded for research. NIH funding increased to $75.2 million in the previous federal fiscal year, improving the campus’s ranking to 102 out of 2,838 institutions and other entities that receive NIH funding.

Researchers at University of Arizona Cancer Center used a double-pronged approach to reduce tumor growth in tissue samples of prostate cancer.

University of Houston Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Richard Willson - who turned glow-in-the-dark stars into ways to detect disease - has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Updated consensus recommendations by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (MSTFCRC) address optimizing bowel preparation quality for colonoscopy. Highlights include the use of low volume bowel preparation and the adjunctive use of simethicone. In recognizing bowel preparation adequacy rate as a quality measure, the authors recommend a “reasonable benchmark” of greater than or equal to 90% at both the level of individual endoscopists and at the level of the endoscopy unit.  

A new review article published in Genes & Diseases explores the intricate relationship between non-coding RNAs and oxidative stress in cancer progression shedding new light on the mechanisms that drive tumor development. As cancer incidence continues to rise, particularly among younger populations, researchers are uncovering key molecular interactions that could transform the landscape of targeted therapies.