The research team led by Fatima Bosch, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB, studied the effects of a protein called IGF-I on the mice.
Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said Ware's injury "looks like a pretty bad break to both his tibia and fibula, " the two long bones in the lower leg.
New Mexico State's athletic department got a nearly 70% subsidy in 2009-10, weighted by the albatross of a football team that hasn't reached a bowl in 51 years. (Neither UAB nor New Mexico State responded to a request for comment.) Meanwhile, public funding for universities has plummeted.