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Diet quality low but steadily improving among U.S. kids

November 23, 2016

An analysis of diet quality among more than 38,000 U.S. children shows that nutrition for the nation’s kids has been getting steadily better in recent years, but what they eat is still far from ideal and disparities persist by income, race and receipt of government food assistance.

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Scientists reconstruct formation of the Appalachians

November 21, 2016

A new study finds that the process that built the Appalachian Mountains 300 million years ago is similar to the process building the Himalayas today.

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Opioids, NSAIDs no different overall for persistent pain after crashes

November 21, 2016

A new study finds that on average, the risk of chronic pain after a car accident was no greater among people given NSAIDs than among people given opioids, but those with opioids were more likely to remain on medication longer.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee tackles data privacy and national security

November 17, 2016

Seny Kamara, a computer scientist at Brown, is part of a committee that will explore the tradeoffs between data privacy, encryption, national security and law enforcement.

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Study reveals workings of immune response to deadly fungal infections

November 17, 2016

Now that scientists understand what triggers key steps in the immune response to menacing fungi such as Candida albicans, they hope to develop ways to make it work better.

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$27 million gift to expand Brown’s effort to decipher disease, improve health

November 14, 2016

A new gift from The Warren Alpert Foundation will allow the University to substantially expand and enhance its M.D./Ph.D. program and endow a professorship in the Brown Institute for Translational Science.

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Biomedical breakthroughs at the Brown Institute for Translational Science

November 14, 2016

Brown University is pursuing a strategic vision to ensure that the most promising advances in basic biomedical research become new treatments for patients.

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Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

November 9, 2016

In a pair of tents on the grounds of a health center in a tiny town, Dr. Adam Levine is managing a cholera treatment unit where the staff still sees 10 to 15 new cases a day, more than a month after Hurricane Matthew.

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Brown awarded CDC contract to battle health care-related infections

November 8, 2016

Starting with a new three-year, $2.7 million award to help implement antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes, a University-led team will perform research and implementation projects for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at reducing infections.

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Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’

November 8, 2016

In Academic Medicine, two Alpert Medical School professors have examined new data suggesting that the number of student applications for residency programs has gotten out of hand, creating a problem that needs to be solved.

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Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures

November 7, 2016

Metal-oxide films with wrinkles and crumples transferred from graphene templates have improved properties as catalysts and electrodes.

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After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined

November 7, 2016

When the Australian government reduced drug costs for indigenous people with or at risk for chronic conditions, they became substantially less likely to need hospitalization to treat those health problems.

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Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality

November 1, 2016

A new study supports the federal government’s use of a skilled nursing facility’s history of hospital readmissions as a key indicator of care quality.

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Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app

November 1, 2016

The new approach combines personal sleep analytics with recommendations based on the scientific sleep literature.

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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions to support breastfeeding

October 31, 2016

Dr. Maureen Phipps, chair of obstetrics and gynecology in the Alpert Medical School and a member of the task force, discusses its new recommendations supporting breastfeeding.

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Chinese medical education rising unevenly from Cultural Revolution rubble

October 31, 2016

A new research review chronicling the history and current state of medical education in China finds that the country’s quest to build up a medical education system to serve its massive population has produced a rapid, if uneven, result.

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Fun with physics: Brown’s new Nobel Laureate talks theory

October 27, 2016

Michael Kosterlitz, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, met with students from the physics department during a town hall event.

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Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon

October 27, 2016

The Moon’s Orientale basin is an archetype of “multi-ring” basins found throughout the solar system. New research reveals how those rings were formed.

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‘Speed networking’ catalyzes collaborations on health disparities

October 26, 2016

To inspire new ideas aimed at addressing health disparities, the Office of the Vice President for Research convened an unconventional approach: “speed networking” for researchers.

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As competition concludes, ‘bio balloon’ team has reached great heights

October 26, 2016

An undergraduate team of emerging synthetic biologists from Brown and Stanford prepares to culminate a global competition this weekend after a productive nine months advancing the science of an entirely biological balloon.

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Brown launches new Data Science Initiative

October 25, 2016

The initiative, which includes a new master’s program, will bolster research that integrates data in new scholarly contexts and prepare students to be leaders in a data-enabled society.

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Study yields rich dossier of cancer-linked protein’s associates

October 24, 2016

By developing an atomic-scale picture of how the cancer-linked enzyme PP2A binds to other proteins, Brown University researchers have developed a new list of nearly 100 of its potential partners.

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Resisting cruelty by leading aid efforts, Syrian doctor comes to Brown to study

October 17, 2016

Tortured and then forced to flee Syria, Dr. Khaled Almilaji has countered tyranny with ever-greater efforts to care for his country’s people — his latest move is to study public health at Brown.

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Ladd Observatory to celebrate 125 years

October 14, 2016

A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.

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Cocoa compound linked to some cardiovascular biomarker improvements

October 14, 2016

A new review of 19 randomized clinical trials finds that consumption of cocoa, and therefore compounds called flavanols, may improve some biomarkers related to lipids and insulin resistance.

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Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity

October 13, 2016

With more than $1.2 million over three years to study how complex brain networks process information, Brown has earned its second grant this fall from the federal BRAIN Initiative and shares significantly in a third.

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Significant deforestation in Brazilian Amazon goes undetected, study finds

October 12, 2016

A new study finds that close to 9,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest was cleared from 2008 to 2012 without detection by the official government monitoring system.

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Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use

October 11, 2016

The new heat-stable RNA ligase could be useful for a variety of applications including in vitro diagnostics and sequencing.

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Machine learning technique helps identify cancer cell types

October 11, 2016

The new technique could be useful in early testing of cancer drugs and in understanding drug resistance.

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New grant to aid design of data-sharing platform

October 6, 2016

Brown researchers will share nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a project to help encourage big data research.

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Believing that others understand helps us feel that we do — even when we don’t

October 5, 2016

New research on how people think supports the idea of a “community of knowledge,” in which people blend the perceived expertise of others into their assessment of their own understanding.

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Brown’s J. Michael Kosterlitz wins Nobel Prize in Physics

October 4, 2016

Professor of physics awarded "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”

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Environmental change drove diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids

October 3, 2016

Researchers show that periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification.

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BRAIN grant of $1.6 million powers study of neural signals

September 29, 2016

Three-year project will develop a software tool to help scientists and doctors understand how recorded brainwaves emerge from underlying neural activity.

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Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA

September 29, 2016

Formaldehyde, a common toxicant and carcinogen recently subjected to new federal regulations, may be more dangerous than previously thought, a new study suggests.

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Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems

September 26, 2016

Sea surface temperatures dipped dramatically during a period from 7 million to 5.4 million years ago, a time of massive global ecological change.

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Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean

September 23, 2016

A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet’s past offers new insights into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.

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New NIH grants support child health research

September 22, 2016

Several Brown University faculty members are key participants in three projects investigating how early life and environmental exposures affect children.

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$2M grant to study simultaneous marijuana, alcohol use

September 22, 2016

Next year at colleges in three states with different marijuana use laws, a team of public health researchers will study why students often use marijuana and alcohol simultaneously.

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Brown launches the country’s first four-year, integrated MD/MPA program

September 20, 2016

The unique degree program gives students an international perspective and enables them to earn both a doctorate of medicine and a master of public affairs in just four years.

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Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on

September 20, 2016

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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Nursing home residents who get palliative care consults use hospitals less

September 19, 2016

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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Simulation posits why legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness

September 15, 2016

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

September 15, 2016

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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Review article takes rare look at impact of advertising psychiatric drugs

September 13, 2016

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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Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve

September 13, 2016

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’

September 12, 2016

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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Public health doctoral student arrives with new national fellowship in tow

September 12, 2016

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

September 8, 2016

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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Negative experiences on Facebook linked to increased depression risk in young adults

September 7, 2016

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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