Researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute have bulked up on more effective strategies to fight obesity by studying the factors that affect food choice and weight gain.
Researchers at Duke have helped develop a first draft of the most comprehensive map of biological evolution ever made—the Open Tree of Life.
Duke researchers have discovered that parrot brains possess a specialized structure, which may be responsible for their ability to mimic humans. Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a skill few animals can boast.
Duke investigators are part of a team that has designed a protein that could someday cure HIV.
Women using nail polish may be ingesting toxins, new research suggests.
Breast cancer researchers at Duke have been awarded more than $1.6 million through the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help both early-career and veteran researchers and fund an innovative workshop dealing with treatment therapies.
Duke University professors have been awarded a total of $3.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to fight cervical cancer in developing countries.
A Duke University professor was awarded a $5.2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to explore algae biofuel as viable alternative energy source. The Duke-led Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium, comprised of both universities and energy companies, aims to lower the cost of algae oil.
The three largest universities in the Triangle were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to better facilitate collaboration between nanotechnology students, manufacturers and researchers.
Duke scientists’ recent breakthrough in brain mapping technology has enabled them to make an improved model of a mouse’s brain, which can then be used to help determine the origins of neurological disorders, and improve treatment in humans. Using an innovational approach of diffusion imaging, a team here at Duke succeeded in creating a three dimensional map of the circuitry inside of a mouse’s brain at a resolution 100,000 times greater than that of a clinical MRI scan.
You have heard of the old adage: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But new research could inspire a new saying: “worms a day keeps the doctor away.” Duke scientists are planning clinical trials to investigate whether ingesting helminths, which are intestinal worms, can treat depression and other neurological diseases. Currently, the public is knowledgeable that the community of different types of bacteria living in human bodies, called the microbiome, is important to health.
Duke scientists have discovered a breakthrough method of delivering cancer drugs that drastically improves their efficiency. This summer, a team led by Ashutosh Chilkoti—chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering—published a study describing the new technique where nanoparticles are modified to package and deliver a common chemotherapy drug called paclitaxel.
Researchers at Duke University have paired with collaborators from across the globe in the hopes of bringing the trained eye of a psychiatrist to the lens of an iPad camera through an app designed to screen for autism. The application first displays a series of short videos that are meant to evoke emotional responses in its users.
Teams of Duke researchers at the forefront of the immunotherapy field are exploring the potential of polio, a fatal disease, to fight cancer. Investigators in the Duke Medical Center hope to use a modified poliovirus to teach the body’s immune system to find and destroy cancerous tissue when it normally cannot.
Duke Marine Lab is taking to the skies. The Duke University Marine Laboratory, located in Beaufort, N.C, recently opened its Marine Conservation Ecology Unmanned Systems Facility earlier this month.
A group of Duke pulmonary researchers has had a string of recent paper retractions from several scientific journals. Six of the retracted papers have two authors in common: Erin Potts-Kant—who was arrested in 2013 on charges of embezzling more than $14,000 from Duke—and William Michael Foster, Research Professor of Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center.
Duke scientists and students are moving forward in their efforts to introduce a new method of delivering drugs that prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to infants. The “Pratt Pouch”—which resembles a ketchup packet—allows mothers in developing countries who cannot give birth in hospitals or clinics to administer an antiretroviral drug directly to their newborn babies.
New models of tiny, wireless pacemakers—the Nanostim leadless pacemaker and the Micra transcatheter pacing system—are undergoing clinical trials in Duke hospitals.
One of only two living plaintiffs in the recently settled lawsuit regarding clinical trials based on discredited cancer researcher Anil Potti's work spoke to The Cancer Letter about her treatment...
In a recent interview with The Cancer Letter, a national cancer research publication, the director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics explained why the University still...
