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  Cell-by-cell analysis of regrowing fish heart shows how stress helps By taking videos of a tiny beating zebrafish heart as it reconstructs its covering in a petri dish, scientists have captured unexpected dynamics of cells involved in tissue regeneration. They found that the depleted heart tissue regenerates itself in a wave, led by a front of fast-moving, supersized cells and trailed by smaller cells that multiply to produce others.

The project, in addition to others announced this week, is intended to address the needs of current U.S. service members and veterans.

Dr. Christopher Plowe, the founding director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine and a leading expert on malaria elimination, has been named director of the Duke Global Health institute (DGHI). He will start in January.  Plowe succeeds Dr. Michael Merson, who stepped down June 30 after leading the institute since it was launched in 2006.

A global team of researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the study did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint, but yielded important results for all-cause mortality.  

 Chancellor Washington Introducing the Duke Health Intitiative   Hundreds of faculty, staff, students, and trainees gathered Wednesday, Sept. 13, to launch Translating Duke Health. The multi-year, multidisciplinary program will focus on areas where Duke Health can make the most significant contributions to health and healthcare.

  Lab experiments show promise for an anti-fungal compound found in nature The Warburg Effect describes a phenomenon in which cancer cells voraciously consume glucose for energy – something scientists have long known, yet have had little success exploiting as a way to stunt tumor growth.

During World War II, the Soviet Red Army was forced to move their biological warfare operations out of the path of advancing Nazi troops. Among the dangerous cargo were vials of Francisella tularensis, the organism that causes tularemia and one of the world’s most infectious pathogens.

Adrian Hernandez, MD, has been named the new vice dean for clinical research for the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Hernandez will begin his service as vice dean on September 5, 2017.

Through a recently awarded K12 grant, the Department of Population Health Sciences will train Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) scholars to use rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods that will impact cardiovascular health outcomes. The program will be spearheaded by its Program Director, Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD, and Associate Director, Ebony Boulware, MD, PhD.