Recent Research

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08.02.21

An FDA warning on epilepsy drugs may pose greater risk to patients.

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07.28.21

Understanding muscle adaptations in the shoulder to repetitive motion and stress. 

07.21.21

Bridging the gap between the medical and design professions.

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07.19.21

Neurons that control every heartbeat are organized differently in male and female rats, opening new pathways for studying heart disease across sexes.

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07.15.21

Researchers look into methods to reduce the early mortality in those with serious mental illnesses.

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07.13.21

From switching fields to studying microorganisms that live in extreme conditions to setting up a lab during the pandemic, a Jefferson researcher shares her story of persistence and creating opportunities for underrepresented scientists.

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06.29.21

A new study finds that exposure to e-cigarette vapor leads to higher levels of the coronavirus receptor ACE-2 in lungs of mice, with nicotine enhancing that increase in male mice. 

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06.16.21

Researchers find an increase in inflammatory molecules in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of C90RF72 patients, informing future anti-inflammatory therapies. 

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06.15.21

Mistrust in physicians kept some Black patients with diabetes from using these services during the pandemic.

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06.14.21

The teams represent some of University’s leading areas of programmatic strength; neurological disease, vaccine development, and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 

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