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The DHVI announced this summer that they had created a vaccine that was protective against SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—and its variants.
Audiences were invited by the Duke Lemur Center to celebrate the day by taking a virtual tour of the center and learning more about lemur species conservation.
The groundbreaking therapy is the only available treatment for pediatric congenital athymia patients.
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"Our goal is to transform access to health care for rural children across the [United States]," Susan Emmett explained. "Grants like this can greatly facilitate our ability to create that transformation."
“When this award came along, it was essentially designed for what I had already been doing over the course of my career, but I never expected to be rewarded for it in a million years,” Rudin wrote.
The team of researchers from Duke and other universities aims to “make a material that can be super-soft and super-elastic (so that you can reversibly stretch it 100-fold) but also super-tough and hard to break."
“She just rolls with the punches, so she’s ready to get back to some normalcy. She loves school and she loves riding the bus; she is ready to get back on the school bus.”
“For us in Africa, the continent perhaps where eventually they will say the deadliest variant of all emerged, it will only emerge because the world failed to do what was right in the moment that it was supposed to do it.”
Xilis’s current collaborations include other academic centers in the United States and major pharmaceutical companies.
The space is designed to promote collaboration between members of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, the School of Medicine and nearby biotech companies as they tackle challenges related to infectious disease research.
The findings revealed that contrary to popular belief, which suggests that our metabolism slows down in our 20s and 30s, there is actually no such effect.
“Once we get home, it will just be a different type of normalcy, but we just anticipate that this will just become part of our life and we'll just warm with that until he is called for an actual transplant."
A network created by Duke faculty aimed at giving Latinx community members increased healthcare access has gained nationwide recognition.
Athena is committed to development in education and will “cultivate a diverse next generation of mobile network leaders with the core values of ethics and fairness for AI.”
Duke is now the first medical center in the United States to implant a new generation of an artificial heart in a patient.
Imagine a metal, scaffold-shaped implant that could support the regrowth of a shattered bone.
“Our job is to prepare for pandemics and we’re already preparing for what might be the next pandemic," said Barton Haynes, director of the DHVI and Frederic M. Hanes distinguished professor of medicine.
The sky is no longer the limit for Duke’s course catalog.
At least three coronavirus variants have been identified in positive Duke-administered tests since the start of the semester. Who are Duke’s variant hunters, and how do they identify different versions of the virus?
Fauci and David Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70, discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine distribution at an event that was livestreamed on Youtube. Fauci said the pandemic situation could improve by March or April if Americans continue to wear masks, practice social distancing and avoid congregating. But he also acknowledged the presence of new threats.
