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Concerns about global warming kicked into high gear for Aryan Gurusamy as plumes of smoke from Canadian wildfires cloaked the Northeast. Now he and a fellow first-year student are competing for a $10,000 prize for a startup to address carbon emissions.

At a time of global conflict when tensions are rising everywhere – including on college campuses – University Equity and Inclusion (UEI) is asking members of Rutgers’ community to engage in conversations about how to “Meet the Moment with Humanity."

IntelliGenes, a first-of-its-kind software created at Rutgers Health, combines artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning approaches to measure the significance of specific genomic biomarkers to help predict diseases in individuals, according to its developers.

Rutgers researchers can predict which patients will benefit from a popular prostate cancer drug – and have devised a strategy that may make the treatment work longer.

A Rutgers researcher, through his spinoff company, has led a team to design and test a device that quickly counts a person’s white blood cells with a single drop of blood, similar to the way glucometers rapidly scan for blood sugar levels.

A Rutgers research project focused on offshore wind energy is poised to make New Jersey a global leader in the field in a little more than a decade.

Using advanced research techniques, Rutgers Health–led scientists have shed light on how chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are related, paving the way to even bigger breakthroughs.  

SARS-CoV-2 will eventually become resistant to the only effective oral treatment, Paxlovid, scientists say. The world needs another.