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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the hippocampus plays a role in short-term memory and helps guide decision-making. The findings could lead to therapies that restore hippocampal function.

Northwestern University’s Puerto Rican Arts Initiative (PRAI) is tackling environmental politics, rights to the city, and community affects and infrastructures in its exciting second phase, which kicked off in spring 2021.
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As the pandemic begins to taper off and the country opens up after a year and a half of restrictions, a surprising downside has emerged: an increase in violence and aggressive behavior. Why are people so angry when the end of the pandemic should be a happy time? Northwestern Medicine psychiatrists and mental health experts explain why this is happening and how to care for yourself through this stressful transition.

When respiratory droplets collide with a surface coated with the new material, they stick to it, get absorbed and dry up, eliminating a potential source of transmission.

In future-looking research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have identified a novel target for a drug to treat SARS-CoV-2 that also could impact a new emerging coronavirus.

The new study calls for a better understanding of how structural discrimination that exposes minoritized populations to ‘unhealthy’ environments — from altered diets, pollution, sanitation and lack of access to green space — impacts the human gut microbiome, which in turn affects almost every aspect of human biology and health.

The U7+ Alliance today issued a statement asking G7 leaders to take into account the interests of future generations as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Commercially available PCR tests can withstand the freeze-drying process, making them shelf-stable for up to 30 days and 50 degrees Celsius, without sacrificing accuracy.

Northwestern University has set its undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board charges for the 2021-2022 academic year. Overall, the cost for undergraduates who do not receive financial aid will increase 3.6%, while financial aid will increase by more than 8%.

Aducanumab, the controversial new Alzheimer’s disease drug from Biogen, was just approved for clinical use by the U.S. the Food & Drug administration. The drug sticks to amyloid plaques, a characteristic of Alzheimer’s, and removes them from the brain.
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