Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one spot to No. 18 in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings of top research-oriented medical schools in the country.
Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that directs stem cell differentiation. Researchers can use the method, called nanocombinatorics, to build enormous libraries of physical structures varying in size. Details of the method and proof of concept is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New ongoing research suggests organ transplant recipients may not require anti-rejection medication in the future thanks to the power of stem cells, which may prove to be able to be manipulated in mismatched kidney donor and recipient pairs to allow for successful transplantation without immunosuppressive drugs.
James C. Russ, CO, professor emeritus of orthotics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, died on Feb. 25 at the age of 77 of a heart attack in his home in Glenview, Illinois.
Research to Prevent Blindness awarded a grant to the Department of Ophthalmology to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
Northwestern Medicine looks at the complications and medical consequences of body piercings. The paper also offers suggestions to minimize complications.
One man will embark on a mission equivalent to climbing Willis Tower, jogging to the Hancock Building, walking to the top, and then running the 24 miles roundtrip to Northwestern’s Evanston campus … all to support research for primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that has stricken his grandfather.