News & Announcements

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Aleksunes' article in the Journal of Hazardous Materials titled, "Hybrid non-animal modeling: A mechanistic approach to predict chemical hepatotoxicity." Hepatotoxicity, often referred to as drug-induced liver injury (DILI), is a leading cause of acute...

Causes of Stress and Diabetes Could Be Linked, Study Suggests.

Stress may be the reason people with obesity are more likely to get other metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Scientists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, experimented on genetically engineered mice to investigate how overeating...

Bracing for the Dr. Oz effect on health care.

Bracing for the Dr. Oz effect on health care.

The health insurance coverage for 3.5 million vulnerable New Jersey residents will be overseen by a cardiologist and former television personality known for promoting highly questionable cures, if President-elect Donald Trump gets his way. The incoming Republican...

Study Reveals How Cell Types Shape Human Brain Networks.

Study Reveals How Cell Types Shape Human Brain Networks.

Rutgers researchers at the Brain Health Institute (BHI) and Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR) have uncovered how different types of brain cells work together to form large-scale functional networks in the human brain – interconnected systems...

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Deo's article in medRxiv titled, "Validation of an ICD-Code-Based Case Definition for Psychotic Illness Across Three Health Systems." Psychotic disorders typically have their onset during late adolescence or early adulthood, and are associated with...

Researchers Zero In On Genetic Variant Tied to Miscarriages.

Researchers Zero In On Genetic Variant Tied to Miscarriages.

In what could be a major advance in understanding the genetic causes underlying human infertility, scientists led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have identified a gene variant directly tied to early miscarriages in women. The discovery of the...