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Research in 60 Seconds: Extreme morning sickness & GDF15

Researcher Marlena Fejzo, PhD, explains how she discovered that the mother’s sensitivity to the GDF15 hormone is the cause behind nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, leading the way to potential treatment options for severe morning sickness, or hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).

Neurosurgeon Gabriel Zada, MD, explains the innovative ways he and his collaborators are working to cure brain tumors, including keeping them alive for a variety of analyses like genomic sequencing and drug testing.

Research in 60 Seconds: Live brain tumor analysis

Why is smoking or vaping so bad for your lungs? Ite Offringa, PhD, associate professor of surgery and of biochemistry & molecular medicine explains the epigenome and how it is linked to lung cancer.

Research in 60 Seconds: Lungs & the Epigenome

Brain Metastasis (BM) is when cancers spread to the brain from their primary sites. Gabriel Zada, MD, breaks down findings that show different cancers spread to predictably different areas of the brain, and why that is important to cancer research and treatment options.

Research in 60 seconds: Metastasis & brain tumors

Ite Offringa, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery and of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, shares her research into the naturally occurring immune response some patients have to small cell lung cancer, and how that could lead the way to new cancer treatments.

Research in 60 Seconds: Monoclonal antibodies & lung cancer

Sandrah Eckel, PhD, associate professor at the USC Department of Population and Public Health Sciences

Research in 60 Seconds: Electric Vehicles & Air Pollution

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