Mice altered to prevent the production of a particular type of immune cell struggled to form new memories.
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) researcher and assistant professor of oral biology Modupe Coker will be awarded a $4.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research grant for her five-year project titled “HPV, HIV, and Oral Microbiota Interplay in Nigerian Youth.”
Rutgers researchers think they have identified a biological process for drug and alcohol addiction and believe existing insomnia treatments could be used to reduce or eliminate cravings.
A Rutgers symposium brings New Jersey researchers together to discuss ideas for preventing the worst environmental events.
Parents can transmit a genetic risk for alcohol problems to their children not only directly, but also indirectly via genetically influenced aspects of the home environment, such as marital discord or divorce, according to a Rutgers researcher.
Rutgers protein scientist, who competed against a computer program, says machine learning will advance biotechnology.
A drone that can fly, float, swim, dive, and transition between air and water in less than a second. Technology that can change the genetic code at the individual base level in a cell or an organism. These two innovations, both invented at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, received 2022 Edison Patent Awards at the Research & Development Council of New Jersey annual banquet on Thursday, Nov. 3.
The nation’s ongoing epidemic of gun violence has been especially lethal for young Black men. According to the Centers for Disease Control, firearm deaths increased almost 40 percent among Black people from 2019 to 2020, to 11,904, with Black men ages 15 to 34 accounting for 38 percent of all firearm deaths. Through research and storytelling, Joseph B. Richardson Jr. has sought to tell the story of the many young men who account for these numbers.