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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also referred to as diastolic heart failure, affects at least 2.5 million people in the U.S.; however the cardiovascular community has a very limited understanding of how to prevent or effectively treat it. Northwestern University has been awarded two grants totaling $18.1 million to research this condition.

Researchers proposed a new method for recording information to DNA that takes minutes, rather than hours or days, to complete. The team's method could change the way scientists study neurons inside the brain.

Victor Yampolsky, the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, marking the conclusion of a 38-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern.

After medicine went missing from the Shedd Aquarium's quarantine habitat, Northwestern researchers cracked the case. They found microbes eating the medicine for nitrogen.

Researchers have analyzed ancient zeolite specimens collected from the edges of East Iceland to discover that zeolites separate calcium isotopes in a wholly unexpected way.

Social media behemoths Facebook and YouTube made headlines this week over public health concerns. Northwestern University psychology and political science experts are available to comment.
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Researchers leveraged cantilever-based sensor platform to develop rapid, cost-effective and multiplexed antigen test, with potential for point-of-care diagnosis that can detect different variants and diseases.

Women and people who menstruate experienced irregularities in their menstrual cycle because of increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.

A study published today shows that Americans have shorter lives than similarly situated Europeans, and that is true even in the richest areas. At the same time, longevity of Black Americans has been catching up, and the life expectancy gap between Black and white Americans fell by 48.9%.

Why are Black children more likely to be expelled or disciplined in preschool than their white peers? Northwestern study finds that teachers tend to complain more about Black students and even though researchers found no differences when the children observed in a laboratory setting.