Q&A with Alvin Crumbliss
By Danielle Muoio | August 24, 2012Crumbliss will receive the Charles H. Herty Medal.
Crumbliss will receive the Charles H. Herty Medal.
A bill proposed to protect laboratory apes and lower costs faces mixed support in the scientific community, even as major research organizations have deemed chimpanzee research largely unnecessary.
The Chronicle spoke with Merson about the development of AIDS treatment, his work in the field and the global response to PEPFAR.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has mobilized a global network of activism and fundraising to fight breast cancer.
Duke will break ground July 30 on the first new research building at the Duke University Marine Lab since the 1970s.
Duke University’s success in improving heart attack treatment in North Carolina will be emulated in other parts of the country.
The highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare will change the course of health care, but it may not change voters’ minds in the November elections.
Despite controversy surrounding the passage of the Affordable Care Act, leaders from the Duke University Health System have stood behind the legislation.
The biology professor has received one of the highest honors in science for her work in plant immune systems.
Two engineering students are getting hands-on with energy efficiency.
Race cars have put recent graduate Michael Feng on the fast track to a career in engineering.
Researchers recently investigated whether these disparities still extend into the highest levels of research medicine.
The University is supporting two outdoor locations as part of the Sustainable Site Initiative.
Although treating adolescents for depression may prevent future drug abuse, it has no effect on future alcohol-related disorders.
It took a while to get “just right,” but the drug T-DM1 both fights breast cancer and delivers fewer side effects.
Between 8 to 10 percent of individuals have adverse responses, or a worsening in an aspect of their health, to exercise.
Duke researchers have isolated an antibody that could aid in the creation of an HIV vaccine.
Duke engineers have paved a path toward the next generation of quantum electronic devices.
Without interventions, 42 percent of the American population will be obese by 2030, a rate that could cost billions in medical expenditures, a recent study predicted.
A collaborative effort to reduce diabetes in the South will receive a major boost from the federal government.