When Joachim Messing discovered a way to crack the genetic code of humans and plants like rice, corn and wheat, he did not patent his work. Instead, he gave away the tools he invented – for free – to his fellow scientists around the world because he believed it was vital for future research.
Rutgers researcher finds that instant messaging in the dark makes a difference compared to having the lights on
Reynold Panettieri has joined Rutgers to develop the university's first clinical and translational science institute and serve as its director. He joins Rutgers from the University of Pennsylvania, where's he held several positions.
Mountainview Program at Rutgers has produced national scholars
Rutgers, Pepsi partner to distribute 4 million cans in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware during milestone celebration
With her wife by her side, a Rutgers graduate pursues her love of acting and improving the lives of urban children
Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, is leading an Institute of Medicine-sponsored committee of scientists studying whether Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can be eliminated. Story lists all committee members.
Human beings do not have gills, but swimming underwater as if we did has long been a basic urge. With his “amphibious respirator unit,” a prototype for what the world now calls SCUBA gear, Christian Lambertsen, Rutgers Class of 1939, made diving feasible for millions of people.
Rutgers University-Newark’s Robin Gaby Fisher has spent her career writing about tragedy and resilience
Fantasy sports look a lot like sports betting when you look at the way Internet sites have changed the game entirely, and the billions they are making in the process.
An innovative multimedia archive at Rutgers Libraries collects ephemera from New Brunswick’s music scene from the 1980s to today
Rutgers eating behavior expert gives tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle during the holidays
Katherine Lau used her biomedical engineering know-how to help create a prosthesis for a 4-year-old girl using 3-D printing.
Rutgers University graduate Simeon DeWitt and his former classmates kept in touch through eight years of war
Two new books present insider perspectives and previously unpublished photography in celebration of Rutgers University's 250 anniversary
Nonsuicidal self-injury is not officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a mental disorder, which means insurance may not cover treatment - despite estimates that anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of adolescents suffer from it. “The mental health system is failing patients who have a clear problem for which they need help,” says Edward Selby, an assistant professor of psychology in Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, whose research lays out a case for recognizing the condition.
A New Jersey music school helps special needs students achieve more than learning an instrument – opening a world of opportunity
George McLaughlin: The Rutgers Alumnus Who Fought for Civil Rights Through Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Rutgers School of Nursing is taking the lead in a $6 million nationwide effort to greatly reduce new HIV infections – a battle complicated by both the aging of career HIV health care professionals and a failure to engage all people living with HIV into treatment.
New online educational programs at Rutgers help health care professionals provide a wider range of services to older adults
Oscar Auerbach's work led to 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Report directly linking smoking to lung cancer, preventing millions of premature deaths
Military Mom2Mom provides a peer-support lifeline to New Jersey military families
Melvin Edwards, a renowned sculptor and a beloved professor of art, returns to Rutgers University to celebrate a retrospective showcasing 50 years of his pioneering work.
Rutgers psychologist discusses the dangers of orthorexia
Care2Caregivers marks its one-year anniversary of providing a lifeline to thousands caring for loved ones with dementia & Alzheimer's
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is improving a variety thought to be lost to history.
At first, 13-year-old Christina Blumstein thought she had an ordinary headache. Was it a bout of carsickness? Too much screen time on her iPad? But a few hours later, Christina was comatose and in an ambulance – and her life was in grave danger. Until that night, nobody knew that Christina had been born with a rare clump of small, abnormal blood vessels in her brain called an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. She had suffered a stroke. A year later, she has almost completely recovered.
When a family finds itself in tough economic times, parents are likely to be more financially generous to a daughter than to a son. And the reason has to do with something parents often tell their adult children – they really want grandchildren. And researchers led by Kristina Durante of Rutgers Business School have found that evolution have made this urge instinctual - based on the higher statistical probability that a daughter will produce offspring than a son.
Rutgers University's collection of rare books by John Milton is open to the public and contains many surprises – including annotations by famous writers and possibly Milton himself
Rutgers University behavioral health experts help educators spot warning signs for suicide in training program
New Jersey International Film Festival, based at Rutgers University, has introduced audiences to hundreds of films not seen elsewhere. It celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer.
A successful sales executive turns to Rutgers program to help others reclaim their lives
Rutgers’ School of Public Health program shows families with developmentally disabled adults the opportunities for more independent living.
A new book by a Rutgers pediatric neurologist and geneticist uses plain language to help parents of children on the autism spectrum maximize their office visits
Teenager starts fundraising campaign at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey by shaving his head.
What the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act really means for veterans seeking mental health care
A liver transplant and the right follow-up care have Mati Muñoz, a patient at the liver transplant center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, feeling younger and stronger at 65 than she has felt in a decade.
Care2Caregivers provides a peer-support lifeline to people caring for loved ones with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
A Rutgers University infectious diseases expert discusses the myths and facts of the measles outbreak and the “vaccine gap” that has put certain adults at risk.
A Rutgers respiratory therapist spends her vacations in Mexico and along the U.S. border as a health educator
Nükhet Varlik, a Rutgers historian, has studied the Black Death – the medieval plague that may have wiped out more than half of the population in vast parts of the world – and found echoes from centuries past in issues such as the spread of deadly diseases including Ebola, human interactions with the environment, climate change and other dilemmas that affect human health today as much as they did in the Middle Ages. There is much we may be able to learn about modern times from what Professor Varlik has found.
Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, a nationally recognized researcher in the fields of health disparities and nicotine addiction in minority populations, has been chosen as dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, effective April, 2015. Currently, he is professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, where he was recruited in 2005 to become the founding executive director of the Office of Clinical Research.
It's a simple premise -- now backed up by more evidence than ever: "Why give more blood to anyone if you can’t show it benefits them?" Jeffrey Carson of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has found that for many patients, smaller blood transfusions after surgery are at least as beneficial as larger ones, both in the short term and the long term. His study is published in The Lancet.
Rutgers researcher David Alland, working with the California biotechnology company Cepheid, has received a grant of nearly $640,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid test to diagnose Ebola as well as other viruses that can cause symptoms similar to Ebola. Alland and Cepheid previously used technology similar to the planned Ebola test to develop a rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) that is now widely used in impoverished areas of the world.
Inspired by her grandmother’s battle with breast cancer, a high school student raises money for Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey with her classical Indian dance graduation event
During the warm months of the year, ladybugs are delightful to have around. Then fall arrives and the ladybugs need to find warmth, which is most available inside people’s homes – where they often descend in large numbers. Suddenly they’re not as cute to many people as they seemed outdoors. But Jessica Ware, an insect expert and assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University-Newark, says having ladybugs indoors serves a very useful purpose, and humans should welcome their temporary houseguests.
In the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was a new, mysterious and inevitably fatal illness, Dr. James Oleske of what is new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School earned renown for caring for children who would inevitably die from AIDS, and for uncovering some of its important secrets. With HIV under much better control, Oleske has now turned his attention to being a champion of palliative care for children who are terribly ill with other fatal conditions.
According to a Rutgers art historian, Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne’s “secret” wife, changed the course of modern portraiture.
A new method of developing vaccines could point the way forward in the fight against infectious diseases for which traditional vaccination has failed, according to a new Rutgers study. The method involves training white blood cells that have not previously been the primary focus of vaccine development. William Gause, senior associate dean for research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, led the study, which recently was published in the journal Nature Immunology.
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