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Approximately 7 million adults in the U.S. are living with opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet a new Northwestern Medicine study that measured residential treatment use among Medicaid enrollees across nine states found only 7% of enrollees with OUD received residential treatment, an integral part of the recovery process for many.

For the first time, Northwestern University scientists have discovered it is possible to isolate a tumor’s attack cells non-invasively from blood, rather than from tumors. The finding opens the door for ACT to treat harder-to-reach cancer types and makes it a more viable option for hospitals.

Following the release of Report #100 on “Estimating Current Vaccine Rates,” Northwestern Now interviewed James Druckman to find out what he has learned since the polling began, and what the future plans are for the COVID States Project.

In a new study led by William Brady at the Kellogg School of Management, researchers found that people tend to over perceive moral outrage online, which contributes to affective polarization. They recommend more transparency, algorithms that do not boost negative content and a more thoughtful approach to engaging with content among users.

One hundred and fifteen years after the execution of Joe James in Springfield, Illinois, lawyers and law students from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions in Chicago are part of a team that has filed a petition seeking a posthumous pardon for James.

Sixteen of the nation’s most prominent colleges and universities, including Northwestern, have teamed up in a new effort to help students, from small-town and rural America enroll in, succeed at and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice.

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago hosts two new and innovative productions exploring little-known truths about the history of slavery.

A new $3 million, four-year grant from the National Center for Special Education Research led by Northwestern University’s Megan Roberts aims reduce the time to autism diagnosis for hundreds of Illinois kids, which can have lifelong benefits.
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New transistor technology boosts the body's electrochemical signals by 1,000 times, enabling diagnostic and disease-monitoring implants.

Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna will deliver a public lecture, “A Decade of CRISPR: What’s ahead for genome editing” at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Tuesday, April 4.
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