Rutgers to Hold Regional One Health Consortium Conference to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Their Impact on Human, Animal and Environmental Health

As the United States and the world continue to battle COVID-19 and other zoonotic diseases, a group of scientists and experts from New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia will convene for a Regional One Health...
4-Aug-2022 3:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Rutgers Researchers Publish Paper Examining the Structure of Proteins Linked to Diseases

Rutgers researcher, Grace Brannigan, has co-authored a study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that centers around the connection between gene mutations in protein sequences and diseases.
15-Jun-2022 4:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Rutgers Researcher Aims to Protect and Regenerate Corals Through Coral Genomics with $500K NSF Grant and Award-Winning Video

A Rutgers researcher will use genomics, genetics, and cell biology to identify and understand the corals’ response to heat stress conditions and to pinpoint master regulatory genes involved in coral bleaching due to global warming and climate...
28-Apr-2022 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Collaboration Between RCSB Protein Data Bank and Amazon Web Services Provides Expanded Data Storage and Access to Researchers Worldwide

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), headquartered at the Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, announces the expansion of its data storage capacity through the Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
26-Apr-2022 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Rutgers Researchers Partner with Cultivated Meat Company to Create Sustainable, Environmentally Friendly, Low-Cost Meat

A pair of Rutgers researchers are teaming up to combat climate change and worldwide hunger at the same time. Yong Mao, associate research professor and lead biologist in the Laboratory for Biomaterials Science at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences,...
20-Apr-2022 10:40 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Landmark Study Reveals Clearest Genetic Signals Yet for Schizophrenia Risk

In a landmark genetic study of more than 121,000 people, an international consortium called SCHizophrenia Exome Meta-Analysis (SCHEMA), led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has identified extremely rare protein-disrupting...
6-Apr-2022 12:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Formula Developed by Rutgers Researcher Proves Promising in Alleviating Gastrointestinal Syndrome in Long-Haul COVID-19 Patient by Shifting Gut Microbiota

A Rutgers researcher’s new formula with Investigational New Drug (IND) status has successfully alleviated a patient’s long-term severe gastrointestinal (GI) illness associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, or long-haul COVID, in a recent...
9-Mar-2022 11:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

Rutgers Researchers Awarded $2.6M Grant from NCI to Evaluate Relighting Behavior Among People Who Smoke

The Center for Tobacco Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey received a $2.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to evaluate cigarette relighting – the practice of smoking a cigarette, extinguishing it, and...
7-Mar-2022 3:40 PM EST Add to Favorites