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Scientists Hack Cell Entry to Supercharge Cancer Drugs

April 17, 2025
New strategy could change how we design drugs—especially the large and polar ones that were once too big to work.
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Neuroscientists Develop An AI Tool to Reveal the Brain's Secrets

April 17, 2025
An epic collaboration between neuroscientists at Duke and six other institutions has yielded an AI tool that paves the way for new approaches to treating neurological disorders.
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Advancing Prenatal and Postnatal Care Through Early Genetic Insights

April 15, 2025
Researchers propose a "treatable fetal findings list" that identifies genetic conditions that can be detected with prenatal testing and treated in utero or in the first week of life.
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Symposium Spotlights Climate-Related Health Challenges

April 14, 2025
The event, organized by the Department of Population Health Sciences, spanned topics including including data science and AI, mental health, education, and local and global health challenges.
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After a Brain Tumor Diagnosis Came Hope

April 14, 2025
Sabrina Lewandowski was diagnosed with a usually fatal form of glioblastoma that many centers would have considered untreatable. But the research-intensive team at Duke took a different approach — and 23 years later, she's living her life and raising her 13-year-old daughter.
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How a Wartime Program to Support U.S. Troops Fueled Decades of Medical Research

April 14, 2025
An unprecedented federal program to support troops' medical needs during World War II led to the emergence of the modern U.S. biomedical system
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New Center Brings Technological Advances to the Future of Health Care

April 11, 2025
The new Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation brings together researchers from the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Pratt School of Engineering, and Trinity to use the power of technology to tackle health care challenges.
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Therapy Combination Carries Risks for Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases

April 11, 2025
Duke researchers found a higher risk of symptomatic brain inflammation in patients with brain metastases who received dual immune-checkpoint blockade therapies within four weeks of a form of targeted radiation therapy.
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The Fungal Fallout of Climate Disasters 

April 10, 2025
When Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, it left more than flood damage—it created fertile ground for mold and fungus to growth. Now, a Duke University team is studying how post-disaster fungi could affect health and recovery in a warming world.
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Gene Therapy Developed at Duke to be Commercialized by Local Biotech Company

April 9, 2025
Duke University has signed an exclusive license with GeneVentiv Therapeutics, a Raleigh-based gene therapy company, to commercialize a gene therapy developed in the lab of Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD, professor of Pediatrics in the Duke University School of Medicine.

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