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A smiling man in a dark polo shirt stands in front of a large display of colorful 3D protein structures.

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$1.8 million gift to Coit College of Pharmacy aims to bring critical data to the public domain

The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona announced today a new, $1.8 million gift from the Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI) to fund the merger of Repbase and Dfam

$1.8 million gift to Coit College of Pharmacy aims to bring critical data to the public domain

Monday

The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona announced today a new, $1.8 million gift from the Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI) to fund the merger of Repbase and Dfam

Vascular dementia has no approved treatments. U of A scientists hope to change that with an inflammation-fighting drug candidate.

Monday

After Alzheimer's, vascular dementia is the second-most common type of dementia. Following more than a decade of development in the lab, researchers are preparing to evaluate a novel peptide in humans.

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

Sept. 24, 2026

Contrary to conventional wisdom holding that early galaxies were composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, new observations suggest that galaxies were seeding the cosmos with heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

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$1.8 million gift to Coit College of Pharmacy aims to bring critical data to the public domain

$1.8 million gift to Coit College of Pharmacy aims to bring critical data to the public domain

Vascular dementia has no approved treatments. U of A scientists hope to change that with an inflammation-fighting drug candidate.

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

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