Recent Articles by

Josh Barney

December 16, 2015
The effort to grow replacement kidneys has been frustrated by the inability to develop blood vessels to support the organ. A team led by Dr. Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez has now isolated the cells that give rise to those vessels.
November 03, 2015
UVA researchers have unexpectedly discovered a way to trigger the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. This could benefit people with anemia – the most common blood disorder – among many other applications.