After decades of stalled national progress in reducing the rate of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), a category of infant mortality that includes sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers at Rutgers Health have proposed an unexpected solution: Caffeine...
A team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers has developed a portable device capable of detecting rare genetic mutations from a single drop of blood. The instrument, described in a study published in Communications Engineering of the Nature Publishing...
In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are proceeding to develop tools that can capitalize...
Increases in local homicide rates in U.S. counties are linked to higher suicide rates the following year, particularly when firearms are involved, according to Rutgers researchers. A new study, published in Social Science & Medicine, examined data spanning more...
Scientific conferences are important drivers of innovation and institutional health, spreading cutting-edge, unpublished data, allowing scientists to test ideas in real time and helping host institutions recruit allies and future hires. By that yardstick, the steady...
