Researchers from New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health received a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how previous infections help or hinder the body’s subsequent response to unrelated pathogens that cause lung...
Rutgers researchers have used neuroimaging to demonstrate that cocaine addiction alters the brain’s system for evaluating how rewarding various outcomes associated with our decisions will feel. This dampens an error signal that guides learning and adaptive...
Congratulations to NJ ACTS fellows Andrew Boreland (Dr. Zhiping Pang lab) and Courtney McDermont (Dr. Manny DiCicco-Bloom lab) for being named the 2023 Aaron Shatkin Award winners. This award recognizes outstanding graduate students who have excelled in their...
Please read Dr. Grasman’s article in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology titled, “Porous biomaterial scaffolds for skeletal muscle tissue engineering.” Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is a condition whereby a loss of skeletal muscle results in...
About half of New Jersey workers know they can take paid sick leave from their jobs, but fewer than half know about paid family leave, at least by the name of the law, according to a recent study put out by Rutgers University. Nonetheless, seven in 10 respondents were...
