Tag: Research
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Understanding Cellular Interactions During Heart Repair
In a recent study, Shuang Zhang, a fourth year student in the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (DGP), shed light on a molecule that mediates cross-talk between cardiac cells and immune cells after injury.
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Coffee Associated With Colon Cancer Survival
A recent study shows that patients treated for colon cancer who regularly drank caffeinated coffee had lower rates of cancer recurrence and mortality.
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Poster Session Highlights Student Research
Medical students gathered to share their Area of Scholarly Concentration research projects with faculty and peers at a recent poster session.
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New Faculty Members Join Department of Medicine
New faculty members, Guillermo Oliver, PhD, and Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, PhD, joined the Department of Medicine and the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute.
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Faculty Receive Funding for Research with Commercialization Potential
The NUCATS Institute and the Innovation and New Ventures Office recently announced the recipients of funding to assist promising biomedical research and moving it into a self-supporting commercial pathway.
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Uncovering How Herpes Viruses Invade the Nervous System
A new study demonstrates how herpes viruses switch between two invasive states to promote infection in the nervous system.
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Grant Supports Research on Most Common Tumor in Women
A $7.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health supports a second phase of basic science research to identify novel targets for treating uterine fibroids.
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New Grant Will Fund HIV Screening and Intervention for At-Risk Youth
A team of researchers from Lurie Children’s, Rush University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago and the Howard Brown Health Center has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to integrate substance use screening and brief intervention into the traditional community-based HIV testing environment.
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Implant Detects Spreading Cancer Cells Early
Northwestern Medicine scientists helped develop an implantable device that detects early breast cancer metastatic cells, a method that may enable physicians to identify cancer spreading in patients while treatments are still viable.
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Probing Patient Beliefs About Painkiller Addiction
Emergency department patients have a range of beliefs and attitudes about the risk of becoming addicted to prescribed opioids, according to a recent study authored by a Feinberg medical student.
