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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.

The 2021-2022 Wirtz Center season lineup includes the musical theatre productions "Something Rotten, (Feb. 3-13, 2022) and the 91st annual Waa-Mu Show (April 29- May 8, 2022), as well as a workshop production of American Music Theatre Project's "The Battlefields of Clara Barton," (Oct. 29-31, 2021).

Northwestern Medicine is part of the research team on a $185 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that will explore the millions of genetic variants that cause disease around the world. The project is called the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium.

The two largest national kidney associations — the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology — have outlined a new race-free approach to diagnosing kidney diseases.

The online space should be more equitable for woman scientists, but a new study finds a strong gender imbalance.

Five Illinois universities, led by Northwestern University, have established the Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) to help meet the data science needs of the Chicago metropolitan area. The interdisciplinary corps will assist a wide range of community-based groups in taking advantage of increasing data volume and complexity while also offering data science students opportunities to apply their skills.