June 29, 2005 Tiny Zebrafish Teaches Researchers How to Fight Off a Deadly Cancer CHICAGO—The embryo of a tiny, silvery tropical fish found in many home aquariums is providing cancer researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine with powerful new insights into the development of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. In[…]

Public Health Director Addresses Long-Term Care With age in today’s graying America comes the wisdom that long-term care needs reform. This “demographic imperative” isn’t lost on the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Eric E. Whitaker, MD, MPH, who presented the 11th Annual Eckenhoff Lecture, “Long-term Care in Illinois: Financing, Regulation, and[…]

Protein Essential for Hearing Also Vital for Pain Perception The same protein that “translates” sound into nerve signals to the brain and enables individuals to hear is also required for pain perception, researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have found. Because the protein, TRPA1, is found in most—about 75 percent—of the body’s pain-perceiving[…]