Opening of the Center for Care and Discovery The University of Chicago Medicine completed its move into the Center for Care and Discovery on Saturday, February 23, transporting 145 patients from Mitchell Hospital into the new, state-of-the-art facility.
Big day is finally in sight: moving patients requires precise execution After about five years of planning and construction, the single biggest expansion project in University of Chicago Medicine history is headed into the homestretch, as employees prepare to move approximately 200 patients into the new Center for Care and Discovery on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Humans and chimps share genetic strategy in battle against pathogens A genome-wide analysis searching for evidence of long-lived balancing selection -- where the evolutionary process acts not to select the single best adaptation but to maintain genetic variation in a population -- has uncovered at least six regions of the genome where humans and chimpanzees share the same combination of genetic variants.
New book connects the human community to its cosmic roots University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Neil Shubin, PhD, makes that connection between astronomical events and the human species in his new book, "The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People," a follow up to his 2008 best-seller, "Your Inner Fish."