'A very hopeful moment’: Duke begins COVID-19 vaccinations
(12/21/20 2:44am)
Duke Hospital received its first batch of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, a milestone in overcoming the pandemic.
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Duke Hospital received its first batch of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, a milestone in overcoming the pandemic.
Despite the excitement and relief brought by news of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines that will likely soon be approved by U.S. regulators, their large-scale manufacturing and distribution is wrought with issues and complexities.
As debate swirls around reopening the economy, three Duke professors addressed the need to remedy testing shortages in a Tuesday media briefing.
There is one thing we constantly consume that we don’t usually give a second thought to: drinking water. A new Duke study on groundwater challenges that lack of attention.
Mark Kruse, Fuchsberg-Levine family professor of physics, has been researching high-energy particle physics and potential updates to the current model of the universe since graduate school. Kruse worked with Al Goshaw, James B. Duke professor emeritus of physics, to discover the top quark, the “heaviest elementary particle,” and together they were awarded the 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize. Kruse sat down with The Chronicle to discuss his work with the top quark and the formation of the universe. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Hearing impairment affects approximately 37.5 million Americans. The economic and healthcare costs of hearing loss amounts to billions of dollars annually.
Chemotherapy is ubiquitous in the world of cancer treatment, but cancer cells have a way to fight back: they simply resist the drugs used in the treatment. Acquired resistance to medication has been responsible for nearly 90% of cancer-related deaths.
A team of 40 Duke medical personnel recently came together to perform the first bilateral hand transplant in North Carolina.
Cancer medication may help treat pneumonia too.
If you’ve ever taken an introductory biology course, you’re probably familiar with intricate protein ribbon diagrams.
Walking through the halls of the Duke Medical Center, you might think you’re experiencing a sort of double vision as two seemingly identical surgeons pass by you. Don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Duke Health researchers have successfully created a checklist for patients with staphylococcal bloodstream infections to determine which patients can terminate antibiotic treatment sooner than others.
A slew of American universities released fiscal year 2018 endowment figures in the past several weeks, including Duke, whose endowment returned a 12.9 percent growth to a record $8.5 billion dollars.
Recipient of the Darwin-Wallace Medal, Mohamed Noor—professor of biology and former chair of Duke's biology department—recently published a book entitled Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics and Life on Other Worlds.
While some people may hit the gym to strengthen their muscles, Duke researchers have been in the lab strengthening their artificial muscles.
Though solar power offers a promising future for sustainable energy, it remains relatively costly and impractical, something three three Duke professors hope to change.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia can wreak havoc when it spreads to the brain—but until recent Duke research, no one had shown how ALL manages to do so.
There could be some unexpected health benefits to five bad habits, according to a recent article published by humor website Cracked.
Forget 2012—it seems that the doomsday has descended upon Duke University early.
Acclaimed Duke professor Adrian Bejan, one of the 100 most highly cited authors in the world regarding engineering, is credited with the development of the constructal law of design in nature. Constructal law is the view in physics that the generation of design in nature is a universal phenomenon, involved in everything from the flow of rivers to the capillaries of the circulatory system to the global distribution of wealth. The Chronicle’s Michael Lee sat down with Bejan, professor in the department of mechanical engineering and materials science, to discuss his theories and the origins of the law.