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 study. 

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 lighting it again to smoke – as well as its consequences on health and efforts to quit smoking.

By employing artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to formulate therapeutic proteins, a team led by Rutgers researchers has successfully stabilized an enzyme able to degrade scar tissue resulting from spinal cord injuries and promote tissue regeneration. 

Rutgers leaders took steps over the past two years that resulted in the university maintaining one of the lowest COVID-19 positivity rates in the country, despite New Jersey and New York being at the epicenter of multiple waves of the pandemic in the United States.

Bingru Huang, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, is principal investigator of the project, “Mobile Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence-Guided Precision Management Program for Turfgrass Water Conservation.”

An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea-level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified, coinciding with evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt.

A research mathematician’s work might seem very different from that of a jazz musician. But a Rutgers University professor who has inhabited both roles to widespread acclaim would disagree. Alex Kontorovich develops number theories and melodies. 

In the time of COVID-19, when intimate relationships have been strained and human connections fleeting, singles are kissing hookups goodbye in favor of settling down – and getting vaccinated at a higher rate to make it happen.

Rutgers public health researcher and expert in microbiology and immunology Maria Laura Gennaro, MD, MSc, has been nominated Inaugural Chair of the Microbiology Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery program.

A world-renowned dogwood tree developed at Rutgers University has been named a Gold Medal Plant by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society.

High suicide risk, specifically among young Black gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men, may be associated with structural racism and anti-LGBTQ policies, according to a new Rutgers study.  The study, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, examined how structural oppression and anti-LGBTQ policies in individual U.S. states intersect and can predict suicide risk. 

The study, published in the journal Health Communication, sheds light on how the media can shape American attitudes toward gun violence and suggest that delivering gun safety-related messages from news outlets watched by firearm owners might be the best approach.