Author: kwm107
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Mustanski Appointed as Advisor to NIH Director
Brian Mustanski, PhD, director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of National Institutes of Health.
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New Brain-Like Transistor Mimics Human Intelligence
Taking inspiration from the human brain, scientists have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking, according to results published in the journal Nature.
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2023 Year in Review
Feinberg experienced a year of outstanding growth, scientific achievement, and collaboration in 2023, from honors and awards to unprecedented research discoveries.
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AI May Spare Breast Cancer Patients Unnecessary Treatments
A new AI tool may make it possible to spare breast cancer patients unnecessary chemotherapy treatments by using a more precise method of predicting their outcomes, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Medicine.
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Using Gene Expression to Predict if a Brain Tumor is Likely to Grow Back
Scientists have found a highly accurate way to predict the best cancer treatment for patients based on patterns of gene expression in their tumors.
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Immigrants Living in the U.S. Have Fewer Preterm Births
Individuals born in the U.S. had a higher rate of giving birth prematurely compared to U.S. immigrants, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.
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Novel Wearables Capture Body Sounds to Continuously Monitor Health
Northwestern scientists are introducing new soft, miniaturized wearable devices that continuously track subtle sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across nearly any region of the body.
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Predicting The Risk of Heart Disease — 10 Years Younger Than Before
For the first time in 10 years, the American Heart Association has updated the model to predict someone’s risk of developing heart disease.
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Cut Salt, Cut Blood Pressure
Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure-reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake, according to a new study published in JAMA.
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New Chicago Biopharma Hub Will Accelerate Timeline from Medical Discovery to Patient Delivery
A new partnership, the Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub for Innovative Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Sciences, will help Chicago inventors transform their research into commercial products.
