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Racial discrimination in mortgage market persistent over last four decades

Northwestern University molecular biologists have identified the beginnings of a genetic signaling pathway that puts the brakes on the tissue growth of the planarian flatworm.

Two Northwestern professors receive top awards from American Sociological Association
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In new research, Northwestern Medicine scientists were able to significantly reduce brain swelling and damage after a traumatic brain injury by injecting nanoparticles into the bloodstream.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the U.S. The respiratory infection has killed at least six people worldwide and sickened hundreds more in Asia.
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Northwestern University scholars can speak to the medical, public health and economic angles of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.

Jonathan Holloway will become president of Rutgers University.

For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated that certain systems with interacting entities can synchronize only if the entities within the system are different from one another.

Neal Blair says smoke particles from Australia will end up in the ocean and could have a fertilizer effect because of trace metals, nitrogen and phosphorous contained within them.
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Researchers have developed a new material that opens doors for a new class of neutron detectors that is small, portable and semiconductor-based.