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The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy will undergo an extensive, two-phase assessment, institute officials announced yesterday in a memo to IGSP faculty and students.
Parents of newborns in Durham can count on some help this year.
The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla sat down with Dr. Marvin Swartz to discuss the circumstances surrounding the incident and the shooter, Jared Loughner.
Recently released documents show that federal researchers had more concerns than previously reported about the now-discredited cancer genomics research conducted by Dr. Anil Potti.
An autopsy released during winter break revealed that a woman who died at Duke University Medical Center was poisoned by a pain reliever and common antihistamine.
A report obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act by the academic journal Nature provides new insight into a panel that reviewed the findings of Duke cancer researchers.
Duke researchers have withdrawn a second paper authored by former cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti.
Although Duke’s newest energy and environment center first opened earlier this Fall, the location plans to continue renovations going into next semester.
The University has reached a resolution in its two-year investigation of biochemistry professor Homme Hellinga. But Duke officials contacted last week declined to discuss the outcome.
Come next Fall, graduate students pursuing a new area of expertise will arrive on campus for the Master of Biostatistics program, a brand new addition to the Duke University School of Medicine.
For some modern doctors and researchers, work for outside pharmaceutical companies supplements traditional pay.
The raucous debate over health care legislation in 2009 brought issues of medical care and cost management to the national forefront
Duke will comply with the American Cancer Society’s request for repayment of a grant that funded the work of former Duke cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti.
Scientists are now one step closer to effective breast cancer prevention after a study performed by researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Brian Hare, an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology, is the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, which tests dogs brought in voluntarily by their owners in order to understand...
Mooney, the George Barth Geller Professor of Research and Neurobiology, is dedicated to understanding the biological basis of learning by studying the learning processes of songbirds.
New cries have arisen in response to the accidental use of hydraulic-fluid-tainted surgical instruments on DUHS patients in late 2004.
A Duke researcher is in the process of retracting a foundational cancer genomics paper, signaling a lack of confidence in some of its findings.
The Duke cancer researcher who has been under investigation for research misconduct since this summer has resigned.
Dr. Anil Potti stepped down from his position at Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Friday and took responsibility for the problems in his research. "It has been a difficult time, as...