Masks are the center of new debate following an article by Duke researchers that many took as a warning to not wear neck gaiters.
Breast cancer is a painful illness to endure and a painstaking one to treat, but a team of Duke researchers may have found a two-part solution that could help treat the disease.
Duke professors are studying and identifying ways to mitigate the disproportionate spread of COVID-19 in Durham’s Latinx community.
Pain is a complex process that is difficult to endure and even more difficult to understand. Duke researchers have made a discovery about mice that they hope could help treat it in humans.
After a national search, the Duke University School of Medicine named Adrian Hernandez the new vice dean and executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute last month.
Under the leadership of Curtis Richardson, director of the DUWC and professor of resource ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke’s prowess in the field of wetland conservation and rehabilitation has grown. Now, the center plans to partner with Duke’s Marine Lab and Brian Silliman, the Rachel Carson professor of marine conservation biology at the Nicholas School.
In a time when global health is at the forefront of our minds, the Duke Global Health Institute has faced new challenges and seen new learning opportunities. The DGHI, established in 2006, is working hard to keep current students going, and some classes have shifted to focus on the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, the institute is looking ahead to a possible increase in applications.
As debate swirls around reopening the economy, three Duke professors addressed the need to remedy testing shortages in a Tuesday media briefing.
With on-campus activities driven to a halt, many researchers in Duke’s scientific labs are trying to adapt to not having access to their labs.
It’s an unexpected pairing of two former point guards—Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and Anthony Fauci.
Second-year Duke law student Zack Kaplan spent his 27th birthday a bit differently from how he might have envisioned it a few weeks prior: eating a chocolate cupcake in self-isolation.
The Chronicle spoke to the co-director of Duke’s Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health about how students should stay healthy, keep others safe and support each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Up to $50 million has been approved for new research on a potential COVID-19 treatment, and Duke is taking charge.
Say hello to Duke’s two newest residents: a pair of critically endangered animals, who happen to be the nephew and grandson of Zoboomafoo.
Facing a nationwide shortage of N95 face masks in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Duke Health researchers have successfully found a way to decontaminate masks so that they may be reused.
The first national study testing a possible therapy for the coronavirus has gained a new participant: Duke University Hospital.
Two years ago, a Duke professor warned to prepare for a devastating pandemic that sounds similar to what the world is facing today.
The person is in self-isolation at home and hasn’t been in contact with DUHS patients while exhibiting symptoms, according to the statement.
Sallie Permar is a Duke professor member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. She talked to The Chronicle about some of the features of the new vaccine and how Duke is also contributing to vital COVID-19 research.
Most Duke lab research is being suspended amid growing spread of COVID-19, Vice President for Research Lawrence Carin wrote in an email Tuesday evening.
