Researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute have bulked up on more effective strategies to fight obesity by studying the factors that affect food choice and weight gain.
Robert Califf, former vice chancellor of clinical and translational research, may soon be taking helm of the U.S.
After the Office of Research Integrity released a report Nov. 9 concluding that cancer researcher Anil Potti engaged in scientific misconduct, some are expressing indignation at a lack of justice and concern that larger research integrity and institutional transparency issues persist.
Seaman v. Duke University et al. is a class action lawsuit filed by Danielle Seaman, assistant professor of radiology at Duke University Medical Center, on behalf of all similarly situated Duke and UNC medical faculty since 2012.
Researchers at Duke have helped develop a first draft of the most comprehensive map of biological evolution ever made—the Open Tree of Life.
HTC’s virtual reality headset prototype impressed members of the Duke community who got to participate in a virtual reality demonstration last week.
One of the developers of the measles vaccine, Dr. Samuel Katz, pushed students to fight for the eradication of preventable diseases Tuesday night at the French Family Science Center.
More than five years after investigations into cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti began, the Office of Research Integrity is providing some measure of closure to the widely publicized scandal.
Duke researchers have discovered that parrot brains possess a specialized structure, which may be responsible for their ability to mimic humans. Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a skill few animals can boast.
Duke investigators are part of a team that has designed a protein that could someday cure HIV.
The Duke School of Medicine’s specialized curriculum is drawing attention from other medical schools across the country.
Women using nail polish may be ingesting toxins, new research suggests.
President Richard Brodhead and Dr. Damon Tweedy, psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the School of Medicine, exchanged thoughts on the intersection of race and patient care at a public discussion Thursday afternoon at Rubenstein Library.
Duke Electric Vehicles will be featured in a commercial during an episode of the NBC show “Heroes Reborn.”
Breast cancer researchers at Duke have been awarded more than $1.6 million through the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help both early-career and veteran researchers and fund an innovative workshop dealing with treatment therapies.
It may not be a coincidence that Dr. Robert Lefkowitz and Paul Modrich, the two Nobel laureates at Duke, are both Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
Duke University professors have been awarded a total of $3.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to fight cervical cancer in developing countries.
In celebrating its ten-year anniversary, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions hosted a collaborative forum Thursday to determine Duke’s role in responding to the world’s ever-changing environmental problems.
Researchers wanting to avoid tick-transmitted diseases may soon have a new tool at their disposal—a tick-collecting robot being developed by Duke undergraduates.
After three years of development, Duke Medicine released a student-created app earlier this year that instructs users in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
