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2023 Spring Faculty Celebration Wednesday, May 17, 5:00-7:30pm, Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens This event is a wonderful opportunity to network, celebrate achievements, and recognize colleagues with faculty awards. Refreshments will be served. Please  RSVP online if you plan to attend. Presented by: Mary E. Klotman, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach to controlling cellular biochemical processes

Should you retake courses for better grades, or take a completely different, higher level, course? When it comes to your GPA, CASPA includes everything. Retaking a course does not replace the grade in the GPA that CASPA sends to individual schools. So, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question.

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The world is filled with tiny creatures that find us delicious. Bacteria and viruses are the obvious bad guys, but the pathogens we haven’t had to reckon with as much – yet – are the fungi.

A new blood test that can identify progression of osteoarthritis in the knee is more accurate than current methods

Sure, lemurs are adorable. With their big eyes, some even look like they belong in a Disney forest. But that is definitely not what drives Anne Yoder’s passion to research these primates. She is interested in them at a genomic level.

Sheba A. Hall, Administrative Coordinator for the Office of Student Affairs, Medical Education recipient of the 2022-2023 Presidential Award

The Precision Genomics Collaboratory collaborated with the Duke Center for Combinatorial Gene Regulation to award three $20,000 pilot grants in August 2021. These grants focused on investigating the role of whole exome and whole genome sequencing in human cohorts with rare diseases. Now, after over a year of work, these researchers are beginning to find answers to big questions.