Health & Wellness: Research

At UT, researchers from science, engineering, humanities, and the arts turn bold ideas and questions into discoveries that shape how we understand the world and our place in it.

Aug 14, 2025

Helping Others Shown To Slow Cognitive Decline

Older adult reading to a child

Jul 15, 2025

Stay Hydrated: New Sensor Knows When You Need a Drink

Jul 14, 2025

Daily Exercise May Be Key to Better Sleep, New Study Finds

Woman exercising

Cockrell School of Engineering

May 02, 2025

No Bones About It: New Details About Skeletal Cell Aging Revealed

Knee X-ray

Apr 14, 2025

Technology Use Linked to Better Brain Health in Older Adults

Older woman typing on a laptop

Mar 25, 2025

UT Austin and MD Anderson Launch Joint Initiative to Advance Breakthroughs in Cancer Research

Mar 14, 2025

How Does Education Affect Alzheimer’s and Dementia Risk? It’s About More Than Degree Attainment

Brain Neurons

McCombs School of Business

Mar 11, 2025

AI Can Open Up Beds in the ICU

An illustration of two robots tending to two patients in hospital beds

Mar 06, 2025

Research Identifies Key Antibodies for Development of Broadly Protective Norovirus Vaccine

Photo rendering of norovirus

Dec 04, 2024

5 Questions for: William Matsui

Oct 17, 2024

Ultra-Processed Foods Pose Unique Dangers for People With Type 2 Diabetes

Four images overlaid on a background of red blood cells, from top left: a woman's face, potato chips, cola with ice and a woman injecting her bicep with a diabetes medication.

Oct 17, 2024

AI in the GI

Sep 11, 2024

Newly Discovered Antimicrobial Could Prevent or Treat Cholera

There are two images side-by-side. In the image on the left, a dark ring separates a blue disk in the middle from a field of grey surrounding the disk. The image on the right is similar, except there is no dark ring.

Sep 03, 2024

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants

Aug 28, 2024

In-Person Contact Linked With Lower Levels of Loneliness in Older Adults

On the left, a younger man with dark hair and a beard sits beside an older man with white hair. The younger man has his arm around the shoulders of the older man. Overlaid on the image are digital distortion lines.

Aug 07, 2024

Drug Trial for Rare Fetal Blood Disease Shows Promise for Less Invasive Approach

Jul 30, 2024

Mexican American Adults Who Frequently Speak Both English and Spanish Have Slower Cognitive Decline, New UT Austin and UTMB Study Finds

Texas Advanced Computing Center

May 20, 2024

Conquering Breast Cancer Using Supercomputers, Data, And Mathematical Modeling

IC² Institute

Apr 03, 2024

IC² Institute, Dell Medical School Seeking Research Proposals to Advance the Use of AI in Health Care

Apr 01, 2024

Move More, Sleep Better, UT Study Finds