Tag: Research
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When to Worry about Kids’ Temper Tantrums
Temper tantrums in young children can be an early signal of mental health problems, but how does a parent or pediatrician know when disruptive behavior is typical or a sign of a serious problem?
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Scientists Discover One Way the Influenza Virus Disarms Host Cells
Northwestern researchers have revealed a new aspect of the interaction between the influenza virus and its host. Understanding how viruses disable the immune system can help scientists design therapeutics to preserve the immune response and keep people healthy.
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MSTP Student’s Research Highlighted by Trip to Asia, Publication
Medical Scientist Training Program student Jessica Queen turned a trip to Asia into a paper that appeared on the August cover of Infection and Immunity. For Queen, the opportunity to travel to a region of the world where cholera is endemic helped put into perspective the reasons she works so hard in the lab.
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Superager Brains Look, Act Decades Younger
A new Northwestern Medicine study takes a look at the brains of an elite group of people age 80 and older whose memories are as sharp as people 20 to 30 years younger than them.
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Project Could Result in First Hand Transplant in Illinois, Protocol to Guide Others
A new research project being conducted by a collaborative team from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is working to determine who, if anyone, should receive a hand transplant.
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Brain Changes After a Stuffed Nose Protect the Sense of Smell
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that after the human nose is experimentally blocked for one week, brain activity rapidly changes in olfactory brain regions. This change suggests the brain is compensating for the interruption of this vital sense. The brain activity returns to a normal pattern shortly after free breathing has been restored.
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Feinberg Researcher Discovers That Thinner Diabetics Face Higher Death Rate
American adults of a normal weight with new-onset diabetes die at a higher rate than overweight/obese adults with the same disease, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Neil Kelleher Awarded W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for Study of Proteins
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary E. Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Proteomics Center of Excellence at Northwestern University, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
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Study Explores Risky Use of Steroid for Sex Normalization in Fetuses
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.
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Researching the Sea’s Greatest Foodborne Killer
Karla Satchell, PhD, associate professor in microbiology-immunology, and her team of toxin biologists are trying to learn what makes Vibrio vulnificus, found in shellfish, so deadly.
