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New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Bhattacharya's article in the Journal of Clinical Investigation titled, "Targeting hepatic kisspeptin receptor ameliorates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a mouse model." The liver is the principal organ involved in lipid metabolism. Dyslipidemia...
A More Balanced Public Health Approach Is Needed for E-Cigarette Use.
Rutgers researchers are calling for a balanced approach to examining recent trends in adult e-cigarette use. Julia Chen-Sankey, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health, and Michelle T....
Heat adds to mental health risks.
Currently over 51 million people in the United States are under active National Weather Service extreme heat advisories, warnings and watches according to HEAT.gov, the website for the National Integrated Heat Health Information System. In New Jersey, excessive heat...
Early Exposure to Antibiotics Can Cause Permanent Asthma and Allergies.
Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study demonstrates. The study, published in Mucosal Immunology, has provided the strongest evidence so far that the long-observed connection between...
Polio: How to find your long-lost vaccination records and other FAQs.
New York City health officials announced last week that they detected polio in wastewater, suggesting that the dangerous virus is silently spreading within the nation’s most populous metropolis. The spotting happened about a month after nearby Rockland County became...
Rutgers Scientists Reveal New Evidence of Key Mechanism in Alzheimer’s.
Rutgers scientists have found more clear-cut evidence of how the destructive proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease attack human brain cells and destroy surrounding tissue. In one of the first studies of its kind examining human brain cells grown in a mouse brain,...
How a state university became a national model for COVID-19 response.
It took less than three weeks from the time the first case of coronavirus emerged in the United States for Rutgers University leaders to prepare its response to what would be one of the worst crises in world history. And it took just another two weeks for it to put...
Is Decline in Bee Population a Natural Phenomenon or a Warning?
A dramatic decline in the bee population at fruit farms in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has Rutgers scientists wondering whether it is a natural phenomenon or a warning about a future threat to the world’s food supply. In a study published in the science journal Insect...