Daniel Shain, chair of the Department of Biology at Rutgers-Camden, is looking to engineer plants with enzymes found in microorganisms living in glaciers – which could potentially open up unusable or extremely cold lands for farming and agriculture. Find out how a quick stop at a diner in Alaska in the 1990s inspired his research.
Researchers have developed new techniques to detect Lyme disease bacteria weeks sooner than current tests, allowing patients to start treatment earlier. Learn how the findings by scientists from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Harvard, Yale and elsewhere are an important step could play a major role in preventing long-term health problems from the disease.
Richard N. Weeks, a 1950 Rutgers graduate, has committed $10 million to support undergraduate scholarships at the Rutgers School of Engineering at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Find out how Weeks’s pledge – the largest gift to Rutgers for scholarships and the largest ever to the engineering school – will help more students earn engineering degrees, and learn how the alumus already is making a difference for current students.
A Rutgers-led team has discovered how plants harness microbes in soil to get nutrients, a process that could be used to boost crop growth, fight weeds and slash the consumption of polluting fertilizers and herbicides. Read what James White, Jr., professor in the Department of Plant Biology, says about the process that could revolutionize sustainable agriculture.
Deborah Gray White, a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History, is celebrated for her groundbreaking research that gave a voice to enslaved black women and an acknowledged expert on African-American history in general. Read the latest in a series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement to learn more about her work and what she has to say about the realities of day-to-day life for all black women.
Rutgers Biomedical Engineering students have taken their skills out of the classroom and into the real world to help children and adults with developmental disabilities at Matheny in Peapack. Watch our video and read the story to learn about some of the medical devises the Rutgers-New Brunswick students developed to provide solutions for some of the everyday challenges the residents face.
Rutgers researchers have discovered a new system to deliver antimicrobial agents – drugs, anticeptics or pesticides – that could more effectively treat or prevent bacterial infections.
With 11 percent of the world's 7.6 billion people living in areas less than 33 feet above sea level, a new study, coauthored by Robert E. Kopp, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, outlines some devastating scenarios that would pose a major threat to coastal populations, economies, infrastructure and ecosystems around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended that people receive flu vaccinations by late October, at the beginning of the season before the virus starts spreading. Read our Q&A with infectious disease experts David Cennimo from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Tanaya Bhowmick from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School for tips to stay healthy and find out where to get a flu shot at Rutgers.
An international team that includes Abraham Pinter, professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and other Rutgers scientists have developed a new test that can quickly, easily and inexpensively identify TB in people infected with HIV. Read about their findings that were announced recently at a United Nations meeting on TB.
The Board of Governors awarded the Peter W. Carmel M.D. Chair of Neurological Surgery to Anil Nanda, professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; and the Karmazin and Lillard Chair in Adult Autism to Vanessa Hus Bal, associate professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. The board also moved forward to create a one-stop service center for students at Rutgers-New Brunswick.