Clint Talbott
- Young people who have inherited a genetic variation leading to increased feeling of dizziness from smoking their first cigarettes have a higher risk of becoming addictive smokers.
- About 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson’s disease have trouble speaking audibly, but researchers led by CU’s Lori Ramig has developed a treatment that helps most patients and is being used in 50 nations.
- In the last two decades, people have used more fertilizer than was used in all of human history; meanwhile, the incidence of disease in humans and animals has been rising. A trio of CU researchers find evidence that those facts may be related.
- Soviet photographers recorded Nazi atrocities, but state’s message changed after Stalin and after Soviet Union’s collapse; CU professor notes the significance of overlapping narratives and memoriesSoviet photojournalists working for the country’s
- Nathan Hale, the famous American revolutionary, was hanged by the British in 1776 for being a spy and is reputed to have eyed the noose with this stoic comment: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”Moses Dunbar, a little-
- Why do older people emerge from, say, hip surgery and an infection with impaired cognitive functions? And what if chronic and enhanced pain could be treated with a single injection of gene therapy?On a recent morning, an auditorium full of older
- Study finds that, for many, drugs work no better than placebos, but resulting firestorm may have obscured nuancesNewsweek heralded the “depressing news about antidepressants” and suggested that drugs like Prozac are “basically expensive Tic Tacs.”
- An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding “the very origin of
- A CU professor has spent years studying the aftermath of two war-torn regions: Bosnia and the North Caucasus. He finds geographically varying levels of environmental destruction, forgiveness and repatriation, along with disparate prospects for peace.
- ‘Signals’ can transform coalitions in the high court, CU study finds