Exposure to a past virus may have selected for variations in brown howler immune genes, which could have aided in their survival during a devastating yellow fever virus that nearly wiped out local howler populations.
Research
Mutations may have saved brown howlers from yellow fever virus
August 12, 2020
Sharing Global U stories
July 30, 2020
Register your research with the Global U Inventory, a searchable database of the U’s international activity.
Global engagement in the time of COVID
July 29, 2020
Dr. Steve Burian helps train Pakistan’s next generation of professors.
Utah’s young population contributes to relatively low COVID-19 death rate
July 29, 2020
Utahns should continue to proceed with caution.
Your hair knows what you eat and how much your haircut costs
July 29, 2020
Isotopes in hair reveal connection between diet and socioeconomic status.
How Salt Lake’s buildings affect its climate future
July 28, 2020
Researchers say that building policies now can have big impacts on energy use in the future.
Comet NEOWISE lit up skies and social media
July 23, 2020
Comet NEOWISE blazed across the skies of the northern hemisphere and won’t return for 6,800 years. If you missed it, never fear—the University of Utah community captured stunning photos of this once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event.
Rising temps put desert shrubs in high-efficiency mode
July 23, 2020
Long-term observations track Mojave Desert plants’ responses to climate change.
Gamma-ray scientists bring distant stars into focus
July 22, 2020
For the first time in nearly 50 years, stellar intensity interferometry has been used to take the measure of the stars.
Largest 3-D map of the universe ever created
July 20, 2020
The results are measurements of more than 2 million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.