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CHICAGO --- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law has received nearly $5 million in gifts to expand the Carter G. Phillips Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Center’s programs. The funds will be used for Supreme Court programming and related events across the Law School, as well as the Center’s two clinics: the newly named Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic, where students work under the direction of faculty members who have collectively argued nearly 100 cases before the Supreme Court; and the Federal Appellate Clinic, in which students research, brief and argue cases in federal appellate courts across the country.

Researchers found the Venezuelan crisis has significantly — and negatively — affected country's Internet infrastructure and connectivity. Compared to the average Internet service in peer Latin American countries, Venezuelan Internet speeds are excruciatingly slow, and network growth is stagnant.

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.