The American Diabetes Association awarded $1.6 million to Wolfgang Peti, associate professor of medical science, for his research on type 2 diabetes earlier this month. Peti was one of five researchers to receive a special award given to those just entering the diabetes research world, according ...
Two distinct motors drive cilia movement University physicists determined that two distinct motor mechanisms of cilia — tiny, stringy fibers — are at work in a single cell. The presence of two different modes of movement could help scientists understand how cilia have adapted to perform a wide ...
Carbon dioxide may soon become a key player in the financial industry. Over the past six months, Nabil Lawandy, an affiliated professor of engineering and physics, and his former graduate student Andrei Smuk PhD ’00, have used a derivative of carbon dioxide to effectively clean paper money without ...
While World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 brings HIV/AIDS to the forefront of public attention, many University researchers are working to understand and combat HIV/AIDS every day of the year. The Brown University AIDS Program, which includes more than 30 faculty members, works to address intersecting issues ...
Brains of infants carrying a gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease develop differently than those of non-carriers, according to a recent study published by researchers at Brown and Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix. The study, published Nov. 25 in the journal JAMA Neurology, details the ...
Despite widespread stigmatization of smoking cigarettes, the use of electronic cigarettes is on the rise nationwide. Electronic cigarettes, better known as e-cigarettes, simulate smoking by vaporizing a liquid solution containing nicotine and often added flavors. “There’s emerging research that ...
The University advertises conducting research as a “vital part of the undergraduate experience” on its admissions website, but administrators do not know how many students actually conduct research during their undergraduate years. Administrators track the total number of Undergraduate Teaching ...
Clad only in a diaper, a baby perches at the top of a slide and eyes toys at the end of the path below him. Too young to walk, he slides down the slope to end his journey at the rewards he sought. Variations on this scenario — depicted in a series of videos psychologist Karen Adolph showed during ...
Tadpoles are helping University researchers understand the mechanisms of autism. Eric James GS presented a tadpole model of autism at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego Nov. 10. James and Arseny Khakhalin, a postdoctoral fellow, started studying tadpole autism in Associate ...
Rwandan medical schools receive international boost Recent efforts by Brown medical professionals and health care providers from other institutions to strengthen medical provider training in Rwanda were outlined in a report published Nov. 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Individual impulsivity and genetic variation make certain marijuana users more prone to “marijuana-related problems,” according to a new study led by Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior L. Cinnamon Bidwell. The study, published in the November edition of the Journal of Studies ...
Ethnic minorities are less likely to receive adequate treatment for anxiety disorders than non-minorities, according to the results of a new study from University researchers. The researchers evaluated a number of different factors, such as the income and education level of patients receiving treatment ...
The University sent two student delegations over the past two weeks to the 19th Convention of Parties, an annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which serves as a platform for negotiations and assessments of international progress in reducing carbon emissions. The ...
Understanding biotechnology is impossible without considering capitalism, said Hallam Stevens, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, during a lecture Wednesday night. A small group of students and faculty members gathered in Barus and Holley 190 to hear his talk, part ...
A recent study by University geologists will help inform a Russian mission to the Martian moon, Phobos. The mission, which is planned to launch mid-2020, will be the first to return with deep-space material, including material from Mars and will potentially answer questions about Phobos’ origin. The ...
Shifting dynamics of the United States’ elderly population include increased racial and economic diversity and a more prominent role of grandparents in their families’ lives as adult children rely more on their mothers and fathers for support, according to a recent study published Nov. 6. The report, ...
By Thanksgiving of 2014, students in the computer science department may be preparing traditional desserts alongside Baxter, a new two-armed robot the department acquired Nov. 5 that may be able to assist with pie-baking. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stefanie Tellex and Associate Professor ...
When the sun set in the middle of Harvard Associate Professor of Medicine Steven Lockley’s lecture, Lockley’s computer darkened as a program called f.lux automatically disabled his computer’s blue light. Blue light has been shown to stimulate cognitive brain activity even in visually blind individuals ...
In a small room in the Geological Sciences building — where it is about 70 degrees Farenheight and 55 percent humidity — resides the University’s two plasma mass spectrometers. The larger of the contraptions measures the isotope, or the structure of an element, according to its atomic mass and ...
Findings from a study showing that the impacts of extreme drought conditions and high temperatures vary across a tropical rainforest’s landscape have implications for understanding global warming trends. The findings of Carlos Silva GS and Jim Kellner, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary ...
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