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The Neurobiology of Itch

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If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you. — Bruce Lee Read More >

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Fall 2013

Features

Not Going Viral

A Pitt med team is beginning to sort out how the placenta protects the fetus from viral infection. Read More >

Surrogate Organs

A researcher at Pitt has managed to grow working livers—and other organs—in animal lymph nodes. Read More >

Promethean Effort

Among regenerative medicine types, liver research docs, and, really, any ardent fans of tissue biology, one often-cited story is the Greek myth of Prometheus, cocreator of humankind. Read More >

Rejection Reconsidered

Frankly, a lot of people are going to give a damn about new findings by Fadi Lakkis and colleagues. It turns out that organ rejection in transplantation doesn’t happen for the reasons scientists had thought. Read More >

Departments

Closer

An invisible universe of all possible organic molecules is truly the final frontier.

Investigations

21 Tsinghua students have a new scientific home at Pitt.

Attending

Andrew Rose woke up one morning and wondered if he could donate a kidney to someone.

Last Call

The liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate on a massive scale. Did the ancient Greeks know this?

For Real!

Warm-weather training is killer—sometimes literally. Heat stroke is the third-leading cause of death in high school athletes.