Professor creates database to share 3-D fossil files
By Adam Beyer | March 29, 2016Paleontology is stepping into the digital age with the help of 3-D printing.
Paleontology is stepping into the digital age with the help of 3-D printing.
Bellamkonda answered questions from The Chronicle's Rob Palmisano via email to discuss his goals and the future of Pratt.
After Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Duke last month, researchers weigh in on the potential of the national cancer moonshot initiative to bring substantial progress and the challenges the field still faces. In February, Biden visited the Duke Cancer Institute and held a roundtable discussion with cancer experts, physicians and health leaders to help inform his new cancer moonshot initiative.
Public health experts at Duke are taking steps to establish a new population health department in the School of Medicine with the recent launch of the Center for Population Health Sciences. The center will be directed by Dr. Lesley Curtis, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Pragmatic Health Services Research in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Policies to reduce carbon emissions could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030, according to new research from Duke and NASA.
Duke researchers are developing a form of cancer treatment that could prove effective against chemotherapy-resistant tumors. Lead study author Dr. Xiaohu Tang found that renal cancer cells died when deprived of the amino acid cystine.
A study from scientists at Duke and NASA is shedding light on the variability of global temperatures and the role that human activities play in global warming.
A recent study showed that laboratory rats exposed to Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic problems.
The president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, called for rethinking the way minorities are treated in science, technology, engineering and math fields during a talk sponsored by the Duke Initiative of Science and Society Wednesday.
Scientists at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are working with the state government on an initiative to educate parents and the public as a whole about the effect of alcohol on adolescent brains.
Dr. Robert Califf may move further down the path to becoming the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration after a procedural vote in the U.S.
The Chronicle’s Neelesh Moorthy spoke with Vivek Wadhwa, adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering and director of research at the Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, to discuss potential job losses in the future as a result of technological change.
Duke researchers have developed mathematical models to predict the growth trajectory of cancerous tumors.
Motions by Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed against the universities last year were denied in federal court Friday.
Vice President Joe Biden joined a panel of local experts to discuss barriers to curing cancer Wednesday afternoon.
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Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Duke Cancer Institute Wednesday to discuss his new cancer initiative with Duke scientists and leaders.
Duke's Environmental Engineering major will graduate its first class of two students this spring. The program—offered through the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department—was launched under former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering Tom Katsouleas in Fall 2013.
Discoveries made by Duke researchers may help to explain how B-cells respond after infected by Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus family. The recent study—led by Micah Luftig, Karyn McFadden and Rigel Kishton—found that when running short of the supply of nucleotides and other cell-building materials, a large population of EBV-infected B-cells stop dividing and arrest, or end the cell cycle, after they hit their first period of rapid growth.
With growing concern about the Zika virus, Duke healthcare researchers and administrative leaders say they are well prepared.