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GW Magazine / Spring 2022 / The most polluted neighborhoods in the United States are also the most disadvantaged. Research at GW aims to shine a light on this inequity—and effect policy change.
U Chicago PME / August 4, 2022/ It’s a brainy Band-Aid, a smart watch without the watch, and a leap forward for wearable health technologies. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed a flexible, stretchable computing chip that processes information by mimicking the human brain. The device, described in …
UTSW / May 11, 2022 / For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Now researchers at UT Southwestern have solved the mystery, showing through a detailed genetic study that the nerve gas sarin was largely responsible for …
Gladstone Insitutes / March 30, 2022 / When mice with atopic dermatitis—a common type of allergic skin inflammation—are treated with drugs that target the immune system, their thickened, itchy skin generally heals quickly. But scientists have now discovered that the same treatment in obese mice makes their skin worse instead. That is because obesity changes …
GW Magazine / Winter 2021 / More than 4 million people live in the Arctic, where climate change is progressing faster than on the rest of the planet. Researchers across GW are working to help sustain their cities, infrastructures and cultures.
Salk Institute / October 14, 2021 / The latest research has implications for understanding sensory disorders and building better prosthetics and robots that can fine-tune their movements based on what they touch.
Gladstone Institutes / October 11, 2021 / The race to develop drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, which currently affects an estimated 6 million Americans, has been slow-going. Now, researchers have found a possible treatment for the neurodegenerative disease in a surprising place: a database of drugs already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
UT Southwestern / April 30, 2021 / UT Southwestern scientists successfully employed a new type of gene therapy to treat mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), uniquely utilizing CRISPR-Cas9-based tools to restore a large section of the dystrophin protein that is missing in many DMD patients. The approach, described online today in the journal Science Advances, could lead …
Broad Institute / April 27, 2021 / A study of antibody-producing B cells from patients who recovered from COVID-19 reveals a new cross-reactive antibody and what makes some B cells more effective at neutralizing the virus.