Rutgers School of Nursing Receives Excellence in Diversity Award.
The Rutgers School of Nursing is one of 10 colleges and schools of nursing in the nation to be recognized for its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The school, along with FDU Health at Fairleigh Dickinson University, were the only two New Jersey...
Rutgers Racing to Discover a Better Paxlovid.
Researchers from Rutgers are among leaders in a race to find an oral COVID-19 treatment to supplement or replace Paxlovid – the antiviral medication that helps keep high-risk patients out of the hospital and from dying. They have published data showing that an...
RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture by Dr. Philip Demokritou on February 16 at Noon
FROM PLASTICS TO MICRO-NANOPLASTICS: Potential Environmental Health Implications Philip Demokritou, PhD Director, Nanoscience and Advance Materials Center (NAMC) Henry Rutgers Chair and Professor, School of Public Health, RBHS Chair, Division of Environmental and...
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Varies by Race, Sex and Birthplace, Researchers Find.
Researchers from Rutgers and other institutions have uncovered significant variations in how inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people of different races, sexes and places of birth. The study, published in Gastro Hep Advances, may assist caregivers and help shed...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Yang's article in Allergy titled, "Adventitial stromal cells and myofibroblasts recruit pro- and anti-inflammatory immune cells in allergic airway inflammation." Allergic asthma is characterized by airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness....
New Understanding of Ancient Genetic Parasite May Spur Medical Breakthroughs.
A multidisciplinary study published in Nature has elucidated the structure of the machinery responsible for writing much of our “dark genome” — the 98 percent of our DNA that has a largely unknown biological function. These findings — which are illustrated in...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Ghaddar's article in Bioinformatics titled, "Hierarchical and automated cell-type annotation and inference of cancer cell of origin with Census." Single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) has enabled annotation and transcriptional characterization of cell-types...
How to Care for Patients — and the Planet.
Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills. Efforts to reduce the environmental impact are gaining momentum in the...
Decoding the Mysteries of Medically Unexplained Neurologic Diseases
New research may create some respite for sufferers of two medically unexplained fatigue-inducing conditions: myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). The conclusion, and the methods used to reach it, could inform how these and...