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The HPV Vaccine Prevents Cancer, but Most Kids Don’t Receive It
The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents. Vaccine hesitancy is hardly limited to shots against Covid-19. Even the HPV vaccine, which can prevent as many as 90...
Two Years Since COVID-19: What Have We Learned?
It’s been two years since the first cases of the coronavirus were detected in China. Since then, the disease has spread around the globe, causing more than 800,000 deaths in the United States and five million deaths worldwide and transforming our lives in...
New cancer therapy from Yibin Kang’s lab holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects.
Imagine you could cure cancer by targeting one tiny gene. Imagine that same gene occurred in every major cancer, including breast, prostate, lung, liver and colon. Imagine that the gene is not essential for healthy activity, so you could attack it with few or no...
Rutgers Receives $10 Million to Address Health Disparities Through Community Partnerships
Rutgers is launching a new initiative to improve the health and quality of life in economically disadvantaged communities dealing with food insecurity, high unemployment, low high school graduation rates and shrinking household income. The Rutgers Equity Alliance for...
Raking in profits, Moderna denies government scientists credit for the COVID vaccine.
While much of the world was sent into a panic by the sudden emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Moderna Inc. weathered the shock pretty well. Indeed, its shares have gained more than 25% in value since the World Health Organization labeled the microbe...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core COVID-19 Resources
The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for...
Coronavirus researcher Cameron Myhrvold is using ‘spectacular’ new technologies to seek and destroy viral pathogens.
Myhrvold, a 2011 alumnus, was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he’d been neck-deep in coronavirus research for years before the pandemic brought his work into global significance. His fascination with viruses...
NIH Biosketch and Other Support Workshop on 12/20 at 12 pm
NIH requires researchers to use the new format for NIH Biosketch and Other Support forms for application due dates and RPPR submissions on/after January 25, 2022 (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-22-018.html). This session shows how to create...