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More possible entry points for COVID spike protein identified by Princeton scientists.
Without a receptor, there is no replication. Without replication, there is no infection. Researchers in Princeton University’s Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular Biology have used a cellular mapping technology called µMap, introduced just two...
Reducing Barriers to Health Care: A Public-Private Solution.
Rutgers University is teaming up with Quest Diagnostics to provide no-cost laboratory tests over the next year to diagnose and manage acute and chronic diseases for uninsured and underinsured patients of the university’s H.O.P.E. Clinic in Plainfield, N.J. This will...
Microorganisms in Tumors May Help Identify New Approaches for Treating Pancreatic Cancer.
Investigators from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, together with RWJBarnabas Health, examined the microbiome of pancreatic tumors and identified particular microorganisms that are associated with inflammation and poor survival. According to the researchers,...
Federal Grant Will Help Train Future Public Health Professionals.
New grant money will help the Rutgers School of Public Health strengthen the public health workforce throughout New Jersey by providing 50 percent tuition scholarships to 84 students. The $1.5 million in scholarship money from the Health Resources and Services...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Crystal's article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled, "Opioid overdose survivors: Medications for opioid use disorder and risk of repeat overdose in Medicaid patients." Patients treated for opioid overdose accounted for 305,623 visits to US...
Doctors Aren’t Happy About the CDC’s New Mask Guidelines for Health Care Settings.
Time and time again, experts have stressed that masking up indoors is one of the best things you can do to keep yourself and your community safe, especially as COVID-19 persists for yet another winter and we enter what’s supposed to be a really icky flu season. Yet...
No Rise in Guillain-Barre Syndrome Cases After COVID Shots: Study.
A new study has found no evidence that COVID-19 shots increase the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to researchers. "This is important because we can say that there is no significant increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome in the population," said...
Pregnant and taking antidepressants? Don’t worry about neurodevelopment harm, study says.
Expectant mothers taking many common antidepressants need no longer worry the medication may harm their child’s future behavioral or cognitive neurodevelopment, according to a new study of over 145,000 women and their children across the United States followed for up...