Center for Environmental Exposure and Disease drives research to combat local contaminants and improve public health.
Learning about one’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease may not lead to emotional distress, but motivation to maintain healthy lifestyle changes tends to fade over time, even in people at high risk, according to a study involving a Rutgers Health researcher.
A technique employed by Rutgers scientists is advancing the ability to investigate conditions including autism and Alzheimer’s.
Rutgers University has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to explore why some people struggle to resist everyday temptations and how that may play a role in various mental health conditions, including addiction, depression and impulse-control problems.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, improved its standing in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents, moving up four spots from the previous year to come in 42nd in 2024. This comes on the heels of the NAI’s announcement of its worldwide rankings, in which Rutgers placed 68th.
An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected.
Rutgers Health researchers from the Nanoscience and Advanced Materials Center (NAMC) at the Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) found that wildfire particles created a microclimate effect that worsened pollution exposure.
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed to young children to combat conditions such as ear infections and pneumonia. But the drugs may disrupt the digestive microbiome at a significant time in a child’s development.
Innovative technology could help detect early heart disease through synthetic echocardiograms.
Rutgers research sheds light on the prevalence of mercury pollution in the world’s polar regions.