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What Can Ice Worms Reveal About the Human Body?
Deep within the icy stillness of the glaciers and snowfields found across Alaska, British Columbia, and the Pacific Northwest lives a scientific marvel that could hold the key to life-saving breakthroughs in medicine and health: the Mesenchytras solifugus, more...
Community-Based Programs in Senior Centers May Lower Health Care Use and Costs for People with Dementia.
Living with dementia in communities with senior centers providing access to adult day health and social services was associated with fewer hospitalizations and lower health care use and Medicare costs, according to researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and...
Coming to Rutgers–New Brunswick: Greatly Expanded Research Opportunities for Students.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick students will have even more opportunities to participate in trailblazing research, thanks to a program being developed by the Office of the Chancellor. Known as the Platforms for Education and Research Cores (PERC) initiative, the...
How Beetle Juice Led to the Discovery of a Virus and Solved the Mystery of a Superworm Die-Off.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists have discovered a virus that caused a nationwide die-off of superworms, a common food for birds, reptiles, other pets and, more and more so, even for humans as an alternative protein source. In doing so, they pioneered a...
Researchers Examine the Persistence of Invisible Plastic Pollution.
Plastic pollution – tiny bits of plastic, smaller than a grain of sand – is everywhere, a fact of life that applies even to newborn rodents, according to a Rutgers Health study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Researchers have long understood...
Rutgers Health Officials Celebrate $47.5 Million Grant to Improve Health Care in New Jersey.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined Rutgers and community leaders on Oct. 30 at the Child Health Institute in New Brunswick to celebrate a $47.5 million and growing federal grant for the Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science that will improve health...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
New Model Identifies Best Candidates for Epilepsy Surgery.
A simple scoring system from researchers at Rutgers Health and other institutions may help doctors predict which patients will likely become seizure-free after minimally invasive epilepsy surgery. A study in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology...