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Beers with Bob — Without Beer
By Nonie Arora My living group, Round Table, had the opportunity to meet up with Dr. Bob Lefkowitz in his office for “Beers with Bob without Beer.” Arnab Chatterjee, a Pratt sophomore and one of our...
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Cooking up a new approach to heart disease in rural China
By Ashley Mooney As cardiovascular disease becomes more prevalent in China, researchers look to change cooking practices that may be putting people at higher risk. Currently, the top two causes of...
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Duke Researchers Cited for Their Influence
We are the champions, my friend. By Karl Leif Bates A new compilation of the world’s most-cited scientists just released by Thomson Reuters (our friends from March Madness), shows that 32 Duke...
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Synergizing Partnerships of the Heart
Guest post by Dharshini Subbiah With diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes on the rise in Asia and throughout the world, six Duke University faculty made the trip to Singapore...
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E-cigarettes might help smoking cessation
Research has shown that nicotine replacement therapies such as the patch, gum lozenges and nasal spray are only 25 percent effective in smoking cessation within the first year of use. Jed Rose, Ph.D....
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Measuring the Mechanical Forces of Disease
“All these complicated diseases that we don’t have a good handle on — they all have this mechanical component. Well why is that?” Brent Hoffman is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering This...
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A Link Between Stress and Aging in African-Americans
A recent study finds that lifetime stress in a population of African Americans causes chemical changes to their DNA that may be associated with an increased risk of aging related diseases. (Image:...
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Fostering a Collaborative Research Environment in Peru
We are told time and time again that Duke is a global university, one that transcends borders and takes interdisciplinary education to the next level. On Monday, I was able to experience this...
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Researchers Get Superman’s X-ray Vision
X-ray vision just got cooler. A technique developed in recent years boosts researchers’ ability to see through the body and capture high-resolution images of animals inside and out. This special type...
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Using Genetic Clues to Reform Cardiac Care
Experiencing cardiac arrest can be compared to being in a hot air balloon in a room that is rapidly filling with water. You are trapped, desperately aware of the danger you are in, and running out of...
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Designing Tomorrow, One Healthcare Innovation at a Time
Imagine a live, health-focused version Shark Tank open to the public: presentations from real health professionals, presenting real innovations they developed to address real health care issues. And...
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Physician-Scientist Takes the Long View and Sets Her Sights High
Dr. Bryan Batch, a Duke endocrinologist and researcher, studies treating metabolic disorders (like diabetes) with non-pharmacological approaches. But, she says, her parents’ medical professions, and...
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New Blogger Vibhav Nandagiri: The Curious Student Blogger
Hey everyone! My name is Vibhav Nandagiri, I use he/him/his pronouns, and I’m currently a first-year student at Duke. Amidst the sea of continuous transition brought upon by college, one area of my...
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Duke has 38 of the World’s Most Highly-Cited Scientists
Peak achievement in the sciences isn’t measured by stopwatches or goals scored, it goes by citations – the number of times other scientists have referenced your findings in their own academic papers....
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Kinsie Huggins: the Future Doctor who Could Shot-Put
From shot-putting, to helping conduct two research studies, to being selected for a cardiology conference, meet: Kinsie Huggins. She is from Houston, Texas, currently majoring in Biology and minoring...
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Only Mostly Dead? The Evolving Ethics of Evaluating Death
I recently had the pleasure of attending Professor Janet Malek’s lecture: Only Mostly Dead? The Evolving Ethical Evaluation of Death by Neurologic Criteria, a lecture sponsored by the Trent Center for...
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Most Highly Cited: 30 for ’23
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: The official list of Clarivate’s Most Highly Cited Scientists came out this morning. Scientists all over the world came racing down the stairs in their PJs...
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