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Researchers found that prescribed, expert-controlled fires are critically important to successful reproduction in prairie plants. Fires increase mating opportunities and seed production.

U.S. stock markets plummeted Monday amid growing concern about the spread of coronavirus in China and across the globe. Northwestern finance professor available to comment.
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Northwestern professor Karla Satchell is leading a national team of scientists who are investigating coronavirus to understand how to stop it from replicating in human cells.
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First study to find that bacteria living in household dust can spread antibiotic resistance genes. Most bacteria are harmless but these genes could potentially spread to pathogens.

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.