New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Bhattacharya's article in the Journal of Clinical Investigation titled, "Targeting hepatic kisspeptin receptor ameliorates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a mouse model." The liver is the principal organ involved in lipid metabolism. Dyslipidemia...
Early Exposure to Antibiotics Can Cause Permanent Asthma and Allergies.
Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study demonstrates. The study, published in Mucosal Immunology, has provided the strongest evidence so far that the long-observed connection between...
Polio: How to find your long-lost vaccination records and other FAQs.
New York City health officials announced last week that they detected polio in wastewater, suggesting that the dangerous virus is silently spreading within the nation’s most populous metropolis. The spotting happened about a month after nearby Rockland County became...
Rutgers Scientists Reveal New Evidence of Key Mechanism in Alzheimer’s.
Rutgers scientists have found more clear-cut evidence of how the destructive proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease attack human brain cells and destroy surrounding tissue. In one of the first studies of its kind examining human brain cells grown in a mouse brain,...
How a state university became a national model for COVID-19 response.
It took less than three weeks from the time the first case of coronavirus emerged in the United States for Rutgers University leaders to prepare its response to what would be one of the worst crises in world history. And it took just another two weeks for it to put...
Is Decline in Bee Population a Natural Phenomenon or a Warning?
A dramatic decline in the bee population at fruit farms in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has Rutgers scientists wondering whether it is a natural phenomenon or a warning about a future threat to the world’s food supply. In a study published in the science journal Insect...
Register now: Open Session on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health and Medicine.
The Committee on Creating a Framework for Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health and Medicine will host a virtual information-gathering session on August 26th from approximately 9:00 am to noon ET. The session will discuss aligning the development and...
Only Half of Children With Autism Receive Early Intervention Services
Despite a federal mandate requiring access to early intervention programs (EIP) for children with disabilities, fewer than half of autistic children in four New Jersey counties received services before 36 months of age, according to a Rutgers study. Income and...
Rutgers study: HPV-related throat cancers are on the rise, and it’s Black and Hispanic men who are more likely to die from the disease.
Black and Hispanic men are dying at higher rates than white men from throat cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), a new Rutgers University study finds, but researchers can’t pinpoint the cause. Notably, despite lower mortality rates among non-Hispanic white...
More than 5K Americans took their own lives using aid in dying laws, Rutgers study finds.
Nearly 5,400 terminally ill people in the nation have used medical aid in dying laws to obtain prescription drugs to end their lives, a first-of-its kind study led by the Rutgers School of Public Health has found. About 70% of the people who used the law to die over...