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Sometimes a little technology can save a lot of effort. A valuable tool for creating and maintaining complete and compliant biosketches for National Institutes of Health applications in the NIH’s “SciENVcv” system.

North Carolinians who live near large hog farms -- known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs -- have higher death rates from a variety of causes than comparable state residents who live further away from such facilities.  

A review of studies over the past 30 years provides a body of evidence that people living near coal-fired power plants have higher death rates and at earlier ages, along with increased risks of respiratory disease, lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and other health problems.   The elevated health risks appear to be associated with exposure to air pollutants from the coal-burning power plant emissions and to the heavy metals and radioactive material in coal ash, a waste product of the plants.   

Eleven Duke faculty members and 34 biomedical students presented their basic science research at the School of Medicine’s 9th Annual Basic Science Day on Wednesday, September 12 in the Trent Semans Center Great Hall. Faculty members gave 30 minute oral presentations, and students presented their posters during two hour long poster sessions.

  Sometimes a little technology can save a lot of effort. A valuable tool for creating and maintaining complete and compliant biosketches for National Institutes of Health applications in the NIH’s “SciENVcv” system.

Presented by: Scott Gibson, MBA, Executive Vice Dean for Administration When: Thursday, January 17, Noon-1:30pm Where: Trent Semans Center, Great Hall

By 2020, the Parkinson’s Foundation estimates that nearly one million people will be living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the U.S. That’s more than the number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig’s disease combined. Researchers at Duke are taking action.

Getting Promoted in the Clinical Sciences Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 12:30-3:00pm; Trent Semans Great Hall Register here

Duke scientists found that a recently popularized non-invasive technology used to detect eye diseases in adults can also be used on infants.  Using an imaging system known as optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), they were able to view the different layers of tiny blood vessels in the eyes of newborn babies without having to touch the baby or inject any dye.   

Duke researchers in the Regeneration Next Initiative discuss their work on re-growing tissues in the human nervous system. The hope would be to repair the ravages of neurodegenerative conditions, but we have a long way to go. Deborah Silver, Cagla Eroglu and Romain Cartoni discuss their current research in brains, eyes, and the central nervous system, some of which involves gene therapy.   [video:https://youtu.be/J-swDpA7_Mc]