Professor Uses Biotech Firm to Study Muscular Atrophy
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The Daily Iowan TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2020 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE IOWA POLITICS 5 Winning elections top priority for new Iowa Dem chair Iowa Rep. Mark Smith was elected the Iowa Democratic Party chair Feb. 15 after Troy Price resigned. He hopes to move on from caucus controversies and focus on helping Democrats win elections in November. BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH caucus process that is still under inves- said in an interview to Iowa voters. 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Sara Montgomery crafted each piece of the new display, but the project was collaborative. 6 Professor uses biotech firm to study muscular atrophy A University of Iowa internal medicine professor has spent the last decade studying muscular atrophy, working to find a way to treat and even prevent the disorder. UI creates new sustain- ability task force to estab- lish campus sustainability goals The UI has created the new 2030 Sustainability Goal Setting Task Force in order to establish a framework of sustainability goals across campus. The goals will encompass six primary principles, all focused on making campus greener. 6 New student org GIVE UIowa offers volunteer opportunities at home, abroad GIVE UIowa, a new student organi- zation on campus, allows students to explore local and international volunteer opportunities. GIVE provides for volunteer efforts in Tanzania, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Vietnam. Tate Hildyard/The Daily Iowan Research scientist Scott Ebert and University of Iowa Professor Chis Adams pose for a portrait in the Papajohn Biomedical Institute on Feb. 11. Adams’ research focuses on how 8 diabetes and obesity affect muscular atrophy. He and his research team removed a specific gene in mice to affects the disease. BY KELSEY HARRELL of muscular atrophy — a condition where the Adams has studied muscular atrophy at the mo- [email protected] muscle wastes away. One University of Iowa re- lecular level. The condition is caused by a lack of searcher hopes to solve this problem by study- muscle use, aging, malnutrition, or illness that As people grow older, their muscles begin to ing the condition. weaken, and they may start feeling the effects UI internal medicine Professor Christopher SEE BIOTECH, 2 UI named Sher carries over success Hamburg Inn No. 2 East from freshman season After finding success in the latter half of the 2019 season, Iowa a top infielder Brendan Sher has kept Side closes — for now his hot streak going in early 2020. Sher has developed into a key component of the Iowa lineup and Local foodies were taken aback at the Hamburg Inn No. 2 Fulbright he’s proving that this season. Rochester Avenue location's sudden closure Sunday. 8 producer The UI has reached its fifth consecutive year of being named a top producer of Fulbright scholars, as university officials emphasize the NBA league official visits program’s importance. 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Business Manager Advertising Sales searching muscular atro- it into something that can “With muscular atro- Debra Plath. .335-5786 Bev Mrstik. 335-5792 leads patients to have weak- phy for 10 years, and said help people, Adams said. phy being such a common Advertising Director/Circulation Production Manager ened muscles. he first became interested “So, the translation problem, it's critical that Juli Krause. 335-5784 Heidi Owen. 335-5789 Adams and his colleagues in the condition after ob- means, take it out of the lab- we understand more about are studying the nature of serving it in many patients oratory and take it back to the mechanisms that cause human muscle through bi- as a physician. the patients,” Adams said. it,” Ebert said. “With this chemical structures to use opsies when muscular at- “It’s just not well under- Scott Ebert, vice presi- knowledge, it is our goal to in the genes Adams is study- rophy occurs, he said, com- stood at the molecular lev- dent of biology at Emmyon, then use this information to ing, Talley said. It’s import- pared to people without the el, and we don’t have any has worked with Adams at find ways to inhibit muscle ant to study muscular atro- condition. effective ways to intervene the company for six years. atrophy and hopefully im- phy because if a patient has The biopsies allow the and treat our patients — During that time, they prove the lives of all those restricted movement for research team to identi- prevent it in our patients,” have published articles on people affected by muscular long periods of time, it can fy molecules in proteins Adams said. the molecular mechanisms atrophy.” cause the muscle to weaken, associated with muscular Although the researchers involved with muscular at- After meeting Adams he added. atrophy that are in mRNA have not found a treatment rophy and developed mol- about five years ago, John “Anybody that’s restricted transcripts, which are com- for muscular atrophy yet, ecules to improve muscle Talley, Emmyon vice presi- to bed rest or has an inju- plementary to DNA strands, they have found molecules strength, muscle mass, body dent of chemistry, thought ry, broken leg, aging with Adams said.