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No, the Tuskegee Study Is Not the Top Reason Some Black Americans Question the COVID-19 Vaccine
A social work professor at the University of Southern California says people in the community are more interested in talking about contemporary racism and barriers to health care, while it seems to be mainly academics and officials who are preoccupied with the history...
The coronavirus is mutating—but what determines how quickly?
WITHOUT GENETIC MUTATIONS, there would be no humans. There wouldn’t be any living beings at all—no mammals, insects, or plants, not even bacteria. These tiny errors, which can happen at random each time a cell or virus copies itself, provide the raw materials for...
CHINJ Career Development Today 12:30-1:30pm
Max Tischfield will conduct a brief presentation for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows who may be interested in learning more about careers outside of academia. He will touch upon some of the various options that PhDs have in the workforce,...
Rutgers Researcher Invents Microbiota Formula to Help High-Risk Patients Fight COVID-19
A Rutgers scientist has invented an early treatment for COVID-19 to prevent severe complications and hospitalizations in patients with prediabetes and diabetes by increasing beneficial bacteria in the gut and reducing organisms that cause coronavirus. The treatment –...
These super hero N.J. students encourage neighbors to mask up city’s billboard campaign
A group of Trenton Central High School students are featured on a billboard campaign to encourage "masking up" during the coronavirus pandemic. The project involved the high school partnering with the City of Trenton, Trenton Public Schools, Office of School Health...
Covid-19 Vaccines: Moderna vs. Pfizer—What Docs Need You to Know
Moderna vs. Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine: Which is better? The short answer is neither. In December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the news the country had been waiting for: The new Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, had been...
NJ ACTS Pilot Funding: Pre-Submission Webinar Today 5-6pm
One of the major objectives of the NIH-funded New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) is to successfully translate biomedical discoveries to clinical applications by promoting creative and innovative science, and by providing pilot support...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Geller's article in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making titled, "Missing lateral relationships in top-level concepts of an ontology" Background Ontologies house various kinds of domain knowledge in formal structures, primarily in the form of...