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.
The Duke School of Medicine’s specialized curriculum is drawing attention from other medical schools across the country.
Women using nail polish may be ingesting toxins, new research suggests.
President Richard Brodhead and Dr. Damon Tweedy, psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the School of Medicine, exchanged thoughts on the intersection of race and patient care at a public discussion Thursday afternoon at Rubenstein Library.
Duke Electric Vehicles will be featured in a commercial during an episode of the NBC show “Heroes Reborn.”
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.
It may not be a coincidence that Dr. Robert Lefkowitz and Paul Modrich, the two Nobel laureates at Duke, are both Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
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.
In celebrating its ten-year anniversary, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions hosted a collaborative forum Thursday to determine Duke’s role in responding to the world’s ever-changing environmental problems.
Researchers wanting to avoid tick-transmitted diseases may soon have a new tool at their disposal—a tick-collecting robot being developed by Duke undergraduates.
After three years of development, Duke Medicine released a student-created app earlier this year that instructs users in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Duke is creating a new health policy center to develop ideas for health reform, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday in a press release.
The Chronicle’s Neelesh Moorthy recently spoke with Nobel laureate Paul Modrich about the award, his work and the importance of basic research.
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.
A team of current and former Duke students tackled the gender gap in engineering at the Global Grand Challenges Summit in Beijing last month.
Paul Modrich’s Nobel Prize win is a huge victory not only for him and for Duke, but also for all fields of basic research, administrators and colleagues said.
Paul Modrich, James B. Duke professor of biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday.
In the past two years, students, graduates and faculty at the Pratt School of Engineering have innovated at record rates. In 2015, 89 patent applications were filed and 60 received, compared to 30 patents filed and 42 patents received in 2013—according to a Sept.
Transgender youth and their families have a new resource for furthering their mental and physical well-being.
