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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $3.3 million over five years to Northwestern University to study the implementation of an evidence-based secure firearm storage program. The study will focus on community health centers, which serve individuals who have limited access to health care and those who often experience health inequities. Parents at these health centers will receive counseling around secure firearm storage and free cable locks.

Researchers applied dancing molecules therapy to damaged human cartilage cells.

Northwestern University biologists have pinpointed when the gene network that regulates these stem cells may have evolved and gained insights into what might be responsible for lampreys’ missing mandibles.

Nearly 20% of suicides in Illinois between 2020 and 2021 were among people 65 years and older, according to recently released data from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen — 13,000 feet below the surface.

Iron oxide, a naturally occurring mineral in soils and sediments, can perform the reaction that transforms organic phosphorus to generate the inorganic form.

Northwestern University fertility expert says IVF should be the one thing all politicians can agree on.
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A new study from Northwestern University hijacked the body's transit system and sent tiny, virus-sized containers to effectively deliver an engineered protein to its target cell and trigger a change in the cell’s gene expression.

As more details emerge about the gunman in Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, Northwestern University mass-shooting expert Lori Post is available to talk to media about her research, which identifies developmental typologies of mass shooters.
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Important information for journalists related to Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium — the temporary structures at the Lanny and Sharon Martin athletics facility on Northwestern’s Evanston lakefront.