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President Joe Biden announced today, March 11, his intent to nominate Ben Harris, associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, the White House said in a statement.

By bonding borophene with atomic hydrogen, Northwestern researchers created borophane, which has the same exciting properties as borophene and is stable outside of a vacuum.

For the first time ever, a research team has peered inside a human cell to view the mediator complex, a multi-subunit machine responsible for regulating gene expression.

Researchers accurately estimated pain levels and detected changes in pain by using AI algorithms to examine physiological data from patients with chronic pain.

In prior studies, Northwestern researchers found that infants’ success in object categorization was boosted, not only in the context of listening to their native language, but also while listening to vocalizations of non-human primates. This indicated that the link between human language and cognition emerges very early and derives from an initially broad template that also includes vocalizations of other primates.

The number of fatal opioid overdoses in Cook County spiked during Illinois’ first 11-week COVID-19 stay-at-home order last spring, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.

Thanks to the gift of song and music, we also have a glimpse into the personal side of the justice who was known simply as RBG. Bienen School of Music lecturer and soprano-composer, Patrice Michaels, immortalized and humanized her mother-in-law in the song cycle, “The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs.”
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The Japanese town of Namie has now been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and have yet to be back, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida, during his address yesterday to a global audience of nuclear experts, hosted by Northwestern University.
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An early clinical trial in individuals with the deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, showed an experimental drug developed by Northwestern University scientists was able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and trigger the death of tumor cells.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stated that when people get the coronavirus vaccine, they can gather with other vaccinated people without masks. Northwestern Medicine experts weigh in.