Duke alums create DNA tracer prototype
By Imani Moise | April 29, 2013A startup led by recent Duke alums is developing technology to help build trust between fracking companies and the communities they affect.
A startup led by recent Duke alums is developing technology to help build trust between fracking companies and the communities they affect.
A recent symposium sought to foster closer professional connections between infectious disease researchers at Duke Medicine and its Singapore campus.
Health care pricing reform laws may pose risks for patients.
Stricter Environmental Protection Agency regulations could steer the energy market away from coal, according to a recent Duke study.
Duke has an office for taking University inventions and turning them into marketable products, but some faculty have questioned how effective it is.
A team of Duke scientists is pushing the boundaries of knowledge about sea turtles caught by commercial fishing processes.
The University Global Health Impact Report Card, the first of its kind administered by the UAEM, aims to promote medical innovation and public interest in global health.
Years later, theater professor Jody McAuliffe set out to investigate the obscure neurological disease that led to her father's unraveling.
Although the U.S. News and World Report ranks the School of Nursing seventh in the nation, most undergraduate students have never considered nursing as a career option because of associated stigmas.
Government budget cuts may decrease available funding for research organizations such as the Duke Lemur Center and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, along with basic research at Duke.
Duke professors have raised concerns over a policy that entitles the University to a large percentage of the profit received from inventions.
DCRI eliminated 56 positions to address its "specific business needs" in the wake of the federal sequester.
As genetic technology develops, the ability to change the genes of a fetus has moved from the realm of science fiction to a possible reality in the future.
A vaccine for HIV has eluded scientists for decades, but Duke researchers are closer to it than ever.
A genetic mutation that prevents cell death may hold the key to treating deadly brain tumors.
A Duke researcher’s findings suggest human friendship may actually be monkey-like.
Theorist Rob Nixon argued that destructive treatment of the environment constitutes a form of violence.
A bias against oil and nuclear energy as fuel sources is impeding industrial progress, said Alex Epstein, Trinity ’02.
Using DNA analysis, a team of researchers that includes Anne Yoder, director of the Lemur Center, has discovered two new species of mouse lemurs.
Duke School of Medicine advanced in medical school rankings for research from ninth to eighth, but that does not tell the whole story.