MU Researcher studies chicken hearts to find solutions for human heart ailments

Luis Polo-Parada, an assistant professor at the MU Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology in the MU School of Medicine, has been doing research on how chicken hearts develop to find out more about how heartbeats are regulated. So far, Parada has identified some certain proteins in the heart muscle that regulate embryonic heartbeat control, according to [...]

Heart of the Tiger

Doing anything Saturday, Feb. 7? Why not check out the 2009 Women’s Basketball “Heart of the Tiger” game against the dreaded University of Kansas at 1 p.m. in Mizzou Arena.
Still don’t feel like watching women’s basketball game on a Saturday night? Well this game is loaded, and I mean LOADED, with incentives. For starters, [...]