Artificially stimulating heart rate protects the heart from injury, reproducing a key benefit of exercise, according to a new University of Iowa study.

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with Belgian scientists, have shed light on a new host defense mechanism that targets viruses and intracellular bacterial pathogens.

Malloux and Tucker have each been awarded a one-year, $30,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.