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"We were seeing a real drop-off in youth smoking, but now we're seeing an increase," says Dr. Beth Ebel, a UW Medicine pediatrician and researcher with the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Among teens as young as middle-school age, vaping with products that have nicotine "predisposes you to cigarette smoking later on." Nicotine, once derived from tobacco plants to kill insects, works by altering the nervous system. "We've used it, refined it, concentrated it, and now we have a pure form of one of the most addictive substances known," Ebel says in downloadable video soundbites (2:22).

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For a third consecutive year, UT Southwestern Medical Center is the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth and No. 2 in Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals listings released today. UT Southwestern also ranked nationally in seven specialties including heart and neurological care.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers are helping families and communities deal with trauma and its aftermath.

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The much-talked-about "Coffee Study" is featured in the August 2019 issue of the medical journal Diseases of the Colon and Rectum.

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Acceptance of Argonne’s final design report for the complex APS Upgrade authorizes the laboratory to proceed with procurements needed to build the nation’s brightest energy, storage-ring based X-ray source.

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Rene Izquierdo is a teacher, performer and researcher. He has saved some bygone music of his Cuban homeland from being lost to history.'

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During the 2016 primary season, voters didn't shift their preferences based on who was winning, according to a massive analysis of more than 325,000 tracking poll results.

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A scientist, an artist, and a computer music professor combined 3-D printing, sound, and virtual reality to represent nanoscience data.

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Argonne’s storied Advanced Photon Source (APS), home to thousands of experiments through the years, is currently aiding in a study of shark spines — one that could shed light on human bones. Stuart R. Stock, a materials scientist and faculty member of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, is using the APS to better understand shark vertebrae’s formation and strength through high resolution, 3D X-ray imaging.

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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) today announced formation of the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology (PIIO), a comprehensive bench-to-bedside research initiative focused on harnessing the body’s immune system to fight cancer at all levels—from prevention to treatment and survivorship.

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What happens when we give up? Inside the brain, a group of cells known as nociceptin neurons get very active before a mouse's breakpoint. They emit nociceptin, a complex molecule that suppresses dopamine, a chemical largely associated with motivation.

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the receipt of original, unopened materials from the final NASA lunar missions to be studied at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source, and a brief history of lunar research at Argonne.

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The first completely artificial protein switch, dubbed LOCKR, has been created to work inside living cells to modify or even commandeer the cell's complex internal circuitry.

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Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels presented Sid Lerner with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at a Johns Hopkins luncheon on Monday, July 22, in New York City. Lerner, an ad executive turned public health advocate, founded the Meatless Monday movement, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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A $100,000 technology product development grant will directly support the research and development work led by Troy Townsend, assistant professor of chemistry at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, who is the principle inventor for technology that uses nanomaterials to allow photovoltaic solar modules to be manufactured using an affordable, inkjet-like printing process.

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A team of scientists have designed and tested in mice a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for treating Lafora Disease (LD), a fatal form of childhood epilepsy. This new type of drug is a first-in-class therapy for LD and an example of precision medicine that has potential for treating other types of aggregate-based neurological diseases.

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Imagine that you have a serious medical condition. Then imagine that when you visit a team of doctors, they could build an identical virtual ‘twin’ of the condition and simulate millions of ways to treat it until they develop an effective treatment. That is the vision of a team of scientists, led by Argonne National Laboratory.

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A Phase II clinical trial led by MD Anderson found that treatment with the FGFR inhibitor erdafitinib was effective in 40% of patients with metastatic bladder cancers marked by FGFR3 mutations. The trial results led to FDA approval of the drug.

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A University of Utah biomedical engineering team has developed a system for a motorized prosthetic arm that allows amputees using it to move the robotic hand with their thoughts as well as to feel the sensation of touch by sending impulses to the nerves and brain.

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Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science Foundation’s Kitt Peak National Observatory have led to the discovery of the fastest eclipsing white dwarf binary yet known. Clocking in with an orbital period of only 6.91 minutes, the rapidly orbiting stars are expected to be one of the strongest sources of gravitational waves detectable with LISA, the future space-based gravitational wave detector.