Two days before he nearly died, Ryan Eisner felt great. In fact, if you’d asked him, he would’ve told you he was in the best shape of his life.

When these teens lost a friend, they decided the best way to remember her was a fundraising effort that they’d never forget

How do you teach dozens of gradeschoolers basic science principles? Well, one way is to disguise the lessons as a big, fun disaster area. This spring, Drs. Courtney and Tim Griffin led a team of OMRF scientists to wage a guerilla science assault on Oklahoma City’s Wilson Elementary School. From bag bombs and cloud bubbles […]

This summer, Wolverine, Mystique, Storm and the rest of the Marvel superhero gang invaded movie theaters in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Their task: Stop a group of robots programmed to hunt and destroy mutants. Sounds far-fetched, huh? Well, maybe the robot part. “Mutants are actually extremely common,” says OMRF scientist Dr. Chris Sansam. “Someone […]

No, OMRF is not a university. But with more than 30 graduate students from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and other state institutions working in our labs, it can sometimes feel like one. OMRF senior scientists train the students, each of whom is working toward a Ph.D. The process typically takes four or […]

This year, 23,000 Americans will be diagnosed with brain and other nervous system cancers, and 14,000 will die from these forms of the disease. But a new experimental therapy developed by OMRF aims to reduce these grim statistics. The investigational drug, OKN-007, began clinical trials at the University of Oklahoma’s Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer […]

Dear Dr. Prescott, How can thin people develop type 2 diabetes, especially if they eat well? Jill Holmes Craighead   Although we may think of type 2 diabetes as an obesity-related illness, about 15 percent of the 26 million Americans diagnosed with the disease aren’t overweight. Many of these folks fall into a category first […]

Targeting Cancer In a paper published in the journal Science, OMRF’s Drs. Dean Dawson and Regis Meyer have revealed how two genes—known as IPL1 and MPS1—are integral to the correct division of cells and life itself. If these genes can be controlled, it could help physicians target and destroy pre-cancerous cells or prevent birth defects. […]