The Food and Drug Administration’s ban on artificial trans fats goes into effect on June 18, restricting U.S. food manufacturers from adding the artery-clogging material to most of their products. Shauna Downs, an international food systems researcher, explains what this means for America’s health and whether consumers will notice a difference in what they eat.
Researchers from Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and the School of Graduate Studies are closing in on an accurate test for schizophrenia that is faster, less invasive, affordable and more accessible to patients using a portable device common in optometrists’ offices.
Noise disrupts sleep, conversations and quality of life, and it’s linked to stress-related illnesses, high blood pressure, hearing loss and lost productivity. Since the 1970s, Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center at Rutgers-New Brunswick, led by Eric Zwerling, has provided training and assistance to fight noise pollution in New Jersey, nationwide and abroad.
A statewide “Tick Blitz,” led by Rutgers University–New Brunswick’s Rutgers Center for Vector Biology, has confirmed the presence of exotic longhorned ticks in four New Jersey counties; found that lone star ticks have moved farther north within the Garden State; and mapped the statewide distribution of American dog ticks.
What are the origins of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere? Did “protein nanomachines” evolve here before life began to catalyze and support the development of living things? Could the same thing have happened on Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Neptune, and elsewhere in the universe?
Richard Marlink, director of Rutgers Global Health Institute and a global HIV/AIDS expert, discusses how rejecting scientific facts can undermine progress in public health – and how the medical profession can further public understanding of science in this Q&A. He will talk about the importance of advocating for science when it comes to health at a June 28 event in New York City. Watch the livestream.
A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing that would be far faster than today’s computers.
Over the course of a year, more than 400,000 New Jersey families receive large medical bills they don't expect, according to the findings of a Rutgers Center for State Health Policy poll. These surprise medical bills almost equally affect families with or without health insurance and are just about evenly split between in- and out-of-network providers among families with insurance, suggesting that the problem will be eased – but not solved – by recently passed state legislation.
Rutgers students and alumni sing lovingly about the “Banks of the Old Raritan,” but the 90-mile-long waterway is awash in microplastic pollutants – a problem that plagues many freshwaters in New Jersey – according to a recent study led by Beth Ravit, codirector of the Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
If you tuned into the ARCA General Tire 150 recently you couldn’t miss Rutgers School of Business-Camden represented on the track. Behind the wheel of the No. 78 Chevrolet – decked out in scarlet red and black – was Max Tullman, son of Stephen Tullman, a 1989 graduate and a successful entrepreneur in the biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Read the story and watch the video.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation provided the landmark grant to boost youth employment by training a new generation of farmers and food entrepreneurs. The goal of the three-year project, spearheaded by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, is to create opportunities for youth in agriculture -- Greece’s second-largest industry -- by preparing young workers for jobs in food-related businesses and family farms and helping them launch their own new businesses. Read the release and watch our video.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them.