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Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on
A Brown University physicist is part of an international experiment, newly funded by the National Science Foundation, to learn more about the first stars and galaxies.
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The first study of how specialist palliative care consults affect nursing home end-of-life care suggests that they are associated with much less hospitalization and fewer burdensome transitions, at no extra cost to Medicare.
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New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.
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Protein may be crucial in many lung ailments
New research in Nature Communications implicates the protein TMEM219 in a pathway that appears to be important in pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and cancer spread in the lung.
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Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychiatric medications appears to increase prescribing, which may be having a mixed effect on the quality of treatment, according to a new review of the very few studies on the topic.
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William Jordan filled his childhood with books, but college was more of a goal than a given — now he’s a doctoral student who hopes his example will make that path more apparent for others than it was for him.
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Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides substantial new evidence that health becomes endangered when aging cells lose control of rogue elements of DNA called transposons.
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A native of Nigeria with an ongoing interest in HIV/AIDS research, Adedotun Ogunbajo will begin doctoral studies at Brown with the support of a competitive new policy fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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With MRI technique, brain scientists induce feelings about faces
In a new study, researchers report they were able to train unknowing volunteers to develop a mild but significant preference or dislike for faces that they had previously regarded neutrally.
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A unique new study of young adults finds that negative experiences on Facebook may increase the risk of depressive symptoms, suggesting that online social interactions have important consequences for mental health.
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From DNA to disease, study describes rare, new brain disorder
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease.
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Rhode Island’s role in promising new Alzheimer’s results
Important components of a clinical trial with positive results for an Alzheimer’s drug occurred at Brown University, Butler Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital.
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Mitosis study finds potential cancer target
By drilling down to the atomic level of how specific proteins interact during cell division, or mitosis, a team of scientists has found a unique new target for attacking cancer.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun
With a passion for problem-solving, the engineering concentrator is focused on the fundamentals of light and playing a role in promising research on next-generation solar cells.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Nari Lee
A progression of summer experiences with faculty has left the rising senior with an expanding set of research skills and medical school aspirations.
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For Brown planetary science graduate students, a “mission-planning bootcamp” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena offers an insider’s view of how to conduct research in space.
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In a study that followed thousands of veterans over a decade, initiating non-medical use of opioid painkillers was associated with a more than 5-fold risk of also beginning to use heroin.
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Study validates new tool for diagnosing dehydration in children
A simple new method for assessing dehydration from diarrhea, which kills hundreds of thousands of children each year worldwide, has proven accurate and reliable.
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Mathematicians, police join forces on the mathematics of crime
Researchers used real data from the City of Providence to look for interesting trends and patterns that might help police analyze criminal activity.
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Study shows how mutations disrupt ALS-linked protein
Structural biologists provide a new explanation for how ALS-associated genetic flaws interfere with the proper function and behavior of the protein TDP-43.
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On the bay with BELL, a call to environmental action
At the Brown Environmental Leadership Lab, high school students learn the skills they need to create change on environmental issues facing their local communities and the planet as a whole.
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Rhode Island's two accredited public health entities — the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Brown University School of Public Health — launched a new academic partnership.
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Driven by a love of marine life and the memory of his grandfather, Peter Baek set out this summer on a six-week sailing voyage to study a delicate ecosystem south of the Equator.
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Warming water over the past 150 years is causing declining fish stocks in Lake Tanganyika, a large freshwater lake that supplies food for millions of Africans.
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As the state takes a deep look at its hepatitis C epidemic, Brown University researchers have crunched the numbers to project what could be done to lift Rhode Island’s burden of death and disease.
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To think about thinking, hundreds of scholars convene at Brown
For the first time ever, the International Conference on Thinking is taking place in the United States, bringing more than 250 scholars of cognition to Brown this week.
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Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma
Using a laboratory device that can deliver concussive impacts to cell cultures and image the aftermath in real time, researchers from Brown are gaining new insight into how brain cells react to trauma.
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In an editorial in JAMA, two experts including Brown University dermatologist Dr. Martin Weinstock question a USPSTF determination that there isn't enough evidence to recommend that clinicians visual screen for skin cancer, such as melanoma.
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New theory explains how beta waves arise in the brain
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Brown University neuroscientists proposes a new theory — backed by data from people, animal models and computational simulation — to explain how beta waves emerge in the brain.
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The creation of a new polymer morphology in a material called PLA could lead to better medical implants and drug-delivery devices.
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Newly found, ‘thrifty’ genetic variant influences Samoan obesity
A new study reports that a genetic variant that affects energy metabolism and fat storage partly explains why Samoans have among the world’s highest levels of obesity.
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World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
At a conference in the United Kingdom, scientists with the LUX dark matter experiment present results from the detector’s final 20-month run.
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The research, published in Nature, has implications for our understanding of the early solar system.
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For frozen embryos in dispute, scholars propose guidelines
In a new paper, two scholars — one medical, one legal — propose a set of practical guidelines to prevent the bitter arguments over frozen embryos that have confounded U.S. courts.
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GAGA may be the secret of the sexes — at least in insects
Without simple repeating sequences of the DNA “letters” GA on the X chromosome, distinct genders could never have evolved, at least in flies and mosquitoes.
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A new analysis of survey responses from more than 100 child daycare center directors suggests that stronger nutritional guidelines, like those enforced by a federal food subsidy program for low-income kids, lead to healthier meals.
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Tiny ‘racetracks’ show how bacteria get organized
The new research sheds light on the surprisingly complex collective movements of bacteria in confined spaces.
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Alpert Medical School, Hope Hospice extend affiliation
A new five-year agreement continues the formal educational partnership between the Alpert Medical School and Hope Hospice & Palliative Care.
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Research that reveals what goes wrong in SMA and suggests that a mild version of the same genetic defect may protect relatives against infection, which could explain why SMA is relatively common disease.
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Meeting of the minds leads to brain science technology venture
After researchers spent years developing an artificial intelligence technology to monitor lab animal behavior, a team of recently graduated entrepreneurs is investigating its commercial potential.
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Experts concerned that primary care screening for melanomas could lead to widespread misdiagnoses or overtreatment can take comfort in the results of a new study that found no such problems.
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With a new five-year federal grant, the Rhode Island Center for Clinical Translational Science will strengthen connections between scientific discovery and health around the state.
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MRI technique induces strong, enduring visual association
Volunteers in a brain science experiment learned associations between patterns and color such that when shown the patterns later, they were still biased to perceive the color even if it wasn’t really there.
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Research uncovers spleen’s role in shaping blood cells
Computer models developed by Brown University mathematicians help to describe an underappreciated function of the spleen.
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A new ‘dashboard’ for Rhode Island’s overdose crisis
Full of practical, graphical guides for the general public and up-to-the-minute epidemiological data for healthcare providers and policymakers, a new website aims to use information to prevent overdose deaths
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Delirium at nursing home admission a risky sign for seniors
A large Brown University study finds patients who exhibited delirium at the time they entered a nursing home were significantly more likely to die or return to the hospital within 30 days and were less likely to recover fully if they returned home.
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R.I. Foundation awards Brown health research grants
Seed funding of $25,000 per project will jump-start five studies related to medical concerns and basic research.
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An updated thermal model for Pluto suggests that liquid water beneath the dwarf planet’s ice shell may not be frozen yet.
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The conditions in which medical personnel and volunteers worked during the period of military rule in Egypt challenged the established understanding of medical neutrality, a new study reveals.
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