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A Lisbon dentist is suing a state agency, claiming it broke its promise to forgive her student loans if she performed dental care in an under-served area in Maine after getting her license.

Bacteria don't have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.

Playwright A.J. Gurney , novelist Roxana Robinson and University of Connecticut English professor Lynn Bloom will be the panelists for a discussion about the impact writing can have on human rights when the Litchfield County Writers Project concludes its fall series "Justice, Injustice and Human Rights" at the Torrington campus of the university.

Current research suggests that a common oral bacterium may exacerbate autoimmune disease.

STORRS -- University of Connecticut football fans celebrate the Huskies' win over Notre Dame.

The Obama bow to the Japanese emperor generated some talk last weekend. Should he have bowed? Should the bow have been so deep.

The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year by investigators at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.

Connecticut officials are auctioning off rescued and rehabilitated horses that were cared for by staff and inmates at the Gates Correctional Facility in Niantic.

University of Connecticut officials say a plan to merge the UConn Health Center in Farmington with Hartford Hospital is unlikely to win official approval.

What would you say about a teen relationship in which the guy is so obsessed and protective he sneaks into his loved one's bedroom to watch her sleep; seems to stalk her every move; tries to control whom she sees; and even disables her truck engine so she can't go out? Or how about a girl who is equally obsessed with this guy even though he ...

According to the 2009 Fan Survey, 34.9 percent of Big East football fans ranked West Virginia University fans as the rudest in the conference.

In a tight election, faculty members at the University of Connecticut Health Center have voted to form a union.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST Lyme disease is caused by the microbe Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans from feeding ticks.

Technology can be seductive because it provides an instant reward - a text message from a friend, success in a video game or stimulating news on a Web site - that is not necessarily harmful.

Joseph Lieberman was re-elected to the U.S. Senate as a political independent after Connecticut Democrats snubbed him in 2006.

Since the start of the semester, the University of Pennsylvania has seen an average of approximately 100 H1N1 cases per week among its student body, and during the week of Nov.

Lt. Col. Michael Zacchea returned from Iraq in March 2005 with demons from a harrowing deployment.

Police are investigating two suspicious fires that occurred within minutes of each other Friday night in a University of Connecticut dormitory.

Every business at the Tri-Chamber Expo at the Stamford branch of the University of Connecticut came with the goal of luring new customers and making a lasting impression.