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Which
Breakthroughs Are Attributable to Mizzou Research?
As the first public university west of the
Mississippi River, MU has been providing solutions for a better
life for more than 167 years. For example, MU scientists and scholars
improved the treatment and prevention of diabetes and helped develop
home dialysis for kidney patients; discovered previously unpublished
works by such famous authors as Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte,
Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Jack Kerouac; performed
the world's first pediatric angioplasty to correct heart defects
in babies; and conducted landmark studies in crop rotation that
are the basis for today's sustainable agriculture.
More than 1,000 faculty at MU are working
to improve human and animal health, food and the environment.
Mizzou boasts some of the world’s leading scientists in
wheat, corn and soybean research and is among the top 15 universities
in the nation in life sciences research funding from the National
Science Foundation.
Recent faculty contributions include gaining a better understanding
of how exercise can improve vascular health; the discovery that
grapes can help reduce brain damage in stroke victims; the creation
of gold and silver nanoparticles that can greatly improve the
diagnosis of cancer; development of a noninvasive system for detecting
breast cancer earlier than mammography; and the invention of a
new drug to combat ulcers and heartburn.
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