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Study: Hillocks challenge our understanding of lung biology

A research team from Tufts University School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital is now reporting evidence that hillocks and their stem cells are physiologically distinct from other cells within the lung and consist of a stratified outer...
29-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

What’s Behind the Potential Ban on TikTok?

Nick Seaver, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University, talks about the potential TikTok ban and whether fears about the app’s addictiveness are warranted.
1-May-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Measles Rates are Rising. How to Protect You and Your Child

Helen Boucher and Jeffrey Griffiths, both infectious disease physicians and at Tufts University School of Medicine, offer their advice for those concerned about measles affecting them or their family.
18-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Developing Research into Mpox Infections

The Martinot Lab at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, where faculty and students have been researching the mpox virus in endometrial tissues to raise awareness of the potential increased risk of mpox virus for women.
16-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Serious flu damage prevented by compound that blocks unnecessary cell death

In a study in mice published in Nature, a research team showed that a newly developed compound was able to block necroptosis, a type of cell death that leads to lung inflammation and damage following infection with the flu virus.
8-Apr-2024 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Can Probiotics Keep My Gut Healthy?

A brief explainer on probiotics from Joel Mason, a physician and senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.
9-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Helping to Restore Stolen African Works

Tufts Professor Kwasi Ampene assisted West Africa's Asante kingdom restore antiquities looted by the British in the 19th century.
3-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

College in Prison Changed Them. Now They Want to Change Minds

While the Massachusetts Department of Correction offers vocational education in fields like barber training and culinary arts, its partnership with the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) is dedicated to the idea that higher...
3-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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A History of the First Asians in the Americas Became Personal

When most people in the U.S. think about Asian immigrants coming to the Americas, they often picture immigrants from China coming in the 1800s. The story, though, is much more complicated—and interesting. As Diego Javier Luis, assistant...
2-May-2024 8:30 AM EDT

On Teens, Nutrition, and Exercise: How to Encourage Healthy Habits

Experts across Tufts outline the challenges for today’s teens when it comes to healthy eating and physical activity, and how parents and caregivers can help
30-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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Are Probiotics All They’re Cracked Up to Be?

Probiotics have been touted as a treatment for everything from diarrhea to mental health disorders, with sales of probiotic supplements expected to exceed $65 billion globally in 2024.
30-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT

A Dentist’s Tool for Tackling the Unexpected

A Tufts University School of Dental Medicine faculty member was part of a team from the Anesthesia Research Foundation of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology that developed a free app called 10 Minutes Saves a Life for use by dentists and...
9-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT

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Teen Behavior, Explained by a Neuroscientist

A researcher at Tufts School of Medicine explains how brain development—as well as current events—can influence decision-making in adolescence.
9-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT

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Spring has sprung and so have the turtles crossing roads

Question and answer from an expert at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic on helping turtles cross roads during the spring.
20-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT

How Animal Reproductive Medicine Helps with Breeding, Conservation of Species

Animal reproductive medicine, theriogenology, helps with breeding and conservation of species, says Tufts University faculty member.
19-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT

Baby’s First Tooth? Time for a Visit to the Dentist

Cheen Loo, professor and chair of pediatric dentistry at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, offers advice on dental care for young children
8-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST

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Tufts University, located on campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, Massachusetts, and in Talloires, France, is recognized among the premier research universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of students as leaders in a wide range of professions. A growing number of innovative teaching and research initiatives span all Tufts campuses, and collaboration among the faculty and students in the undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across the university's schools is widely encouraged.

Experts

MEDICAL

Athanasios Zavras, DDS

Chair and Professor of Public Health and Community Service

Keywords:
Oral Health, oral health and aging, oral epidemiology, Caries, Dental Public Health, Oral Cancer

Elizabeth Byrnes, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Comparative Pathobiology

Keywords:
Neuroscience, Opioid

Amanda Martinot, D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D., DACVP

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Keywords:
Infectious Diseases, turberculosis, HIV, SARS COV-2, Monkeypox, mpox

Wendy Puryear

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Keywords:
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SCIENCE

Meera Gatlin , DVM

Assistant Teaching Professor

Keywords:
Infectious Diesease, Public Health, food-borne illness

MEDICAL, SCIENCE

Christina Economos

Dean and New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition

Keywords:
Child Obesity, Child Health, community-based health interventions, Child Nutrition, Food is Medicine

José Ordovás

Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Genomics Team

Keywords:
Nutrigenomics, precision nutrition, gut health, Circadian Rhythms

SCIENCE

Fang Fang Zhang

Chair, Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science

Keywords:
Cancer epidemiology, Food is Medicine, nutrition and cancer prevention, ultraprocessed food, Produce prescription programs, nutritional epidemiology

MEDICAL, SCIENCE

Carlos Pinto

Chair, ambulatory medicine and theriogenology at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Keywords:
Theriogenology, husbandry, animal reproduction

MEDICAL

Kathryn Sawyer, PT, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science

Keywords:
Physical Therapy, Back Pain, Neck Pain, gait analysis, risk of falls

MEDICAL

Cheen Loo, MPH, DMD

Chair of pediatric dentistry

Keywords:
Pediatric Dentistry, children and oral health, Caries, Dentistry and kids, Dentistry and children

MEDICAL, LIFE

Erin Hennessy, PhD, MPH

Director of ChildObesity180, Assistant Professor

Keywords:
Childhood Obesity, Childhood Obesity And Public Health, Childhood Obesity Prevention, community-based interventions, Food Policy, physical activity and children

MEDICAL, SCIENCE

Jamie Maguire , Ph.D.

Kenneth and JoAnn G Wellner Professor Neuroscience

Keywords:
Neuroscience, Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology

SCIENCE

Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Division of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Keywords:
food systems, Sustainability, Food Policy, Food and environment, Life Cycle Assessment, Agriculture (Food/Food Science), Social Responsibility

SCIENCE

Erin Coughlan de Perez, PhD

Research Director

Keywords:
climate change adaptation measures, disaster risk reduction, climate change and food, Food Production, heat and drought, Flood, Humanitarian Response, climate forecast

SCIENCE, BUSINESS

Sean Cash, PhD

Chair of the Division of Agriculture, Food and Environment, and Bergstrom Foundation Professor in Global Nutrition

Keywords:
food economics, Food Production, Food and environment, consumer choices, cellular agriculture, Food Retailing, health messages, Food Labelling

MEDICAL

Karin Arsenault, DMD, MPH

Hilde H. Tillman, D49, Professor in Geriatric Dentistry

Keywords:
Geriatric Dentistry, Oral Health, Public Health, Health Care Policy, dental education , oral health and aging, community-based care

MEDICAL

Michael Siegel, MD, MPH

Professor

Keywords:
Gun Control, Gun Violence, mass shootings, guns and public health, Public Health, Firearms, guns, Guns and Violence, Tobacco, tobacco advertising, Alcohol, health inequities, public health advocacy

SCIENCE

Hellen Amuguni, B.V.M., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Keywords:
infectious and emerging disease, Global Health, Africa agriculture, one health

Sam Telford , Sc.D.

Professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Keywords:
tickborne diseases, Lyme Disease, powasson virus, babesiosis, Deer Ticks

Maureen Murray , D.V.M., DABVP

Associate Clinical Professor & director, Tufts Wildlife Clinic at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Keywords:
rodenticides, rodent poisons, birds of prey, anticoagulant rodenticides, wildlife rescue

SCIENCE

Jonathan Runstadler , D.V.M., Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Keywords:
infectious and emerging disease, Global Health, Virology, H5N1, Influenza, avian flu virus, SARS COV-2, Influenza A, Virus

MEDICAL

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH

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Keywords:
Food is Medicine, nutrition policy, cardiometabolic diseases, ultraprocessed food, Nutrition Security, Public Health, Diet And Lifestyle, Heart Disease, obesity and nutrition, Cardiovascular Disease

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