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Bodywork: Why are some people mosquito magnets?

September 14, 2021

I tend to draw mosquitoes like an ice cream truck does kids. While the same seems to hold true for my younger son, the bloodthirsty pests ignore my older son. What gives?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bite, bugspray, DEET, diseases, McEver, mosquitos, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, summer

OMRF receives $1.2 million to study diseases of aging

October 15, 2020

OMRF scientist Benjamin Miller received the pair of grants to study how to prevent muscle loss in older adults and other diseases of aging.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: age, aging, Benjamin, cell, decline, deficit, diseases, elderly, Freeman, funding, genes, genetics, grant, loss, Miller, muscle, neurodegeneration, news, newsok, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, old, OMRF, protein, research, sarcopenia, science, scientist-news, skeletal, stem cell, study, target, Willard

Vampires: Sink your teeth into the origins of this Halloween legend

October 26, 2016

Is there a medical basis to the vampire myth?

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Brrrrr-ing on the cold: OMRF houses Oklahoma’s own North Pole

January 13, 2015

Think it’s cold outside? OMRF’s biorepository might make you think again.

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