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A plant biology team has, for the first time, traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Captain William Bligh’s 1793 voyage.

The King Faisal Foundation Jan. 4 awarded Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin the 2023 King Faisal Prize (KFP) in Medicine and Science for his work in chemistry.

Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts invites audiences to indulge in a contemporary translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s lyrical “Blood Wedding.” The seductive tale of passion and vendetta set in the Spanish countryside is directed by Ismael Lara Jr., a candidate of Northwestern's MFA directing program in the School of Communication.

Recent efforts in synthetic biology have leveraged cellular biosensors to both detect and report environmental contaminants in a cost-effective and field-deployable manner. Even as progress is being made, scientists have struggled to answer the question of how to protect sensor components from substances that naturally exist in extracted samples.

A master class with one of America’s most sought-after young countertenors and an operatic fairy tale by Mozart are highlights of the winter voice and opera season at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music.

Frank Galati, Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning writer, director, actor and emeritus professor in the department of performance studies in the School of Communication, died Jan. 2. He was 79 years old.

Northwestern Medicine experts in sports cardiology, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac electrophysiology and emergency medicine are available to speak to the media about NFL player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during Monday night’s football game.
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As the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol approaches, House Republicans’ inability to quickly coalesce on a leadership choice underscores the renewed boldness of hard-right members of the party. Northwestern faculty from the Pritzker School of Law and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences are available to share their expertise on the fallout from Jan. 6 and developing news around the Speaker of the House role and federal charge referrals.
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An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University researchers has mapped ions within human teeth and found significant structural differences between samples that may enhance understanding of enamel’s life cycle and impact on human health. 

The new report provides a snapshot of the state of the pandemic at the end of 2022, including case rates, vaccine and booster shot uptake, antiviral treatment usage, mask wearing habits and flu shot rates. It sheds light on the state of vaccinations and ongoing health risks at a time when the nation is experiencing a “tripledemic” with flu, COVID-19 and the respiratory illness RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) circulating among Americans.