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A new Northwestern Medicine study identifies common and rare gene mutations that impact radiation resistance and sensitivity, an important step toward providing more individualized and effective radiotherapy for patients with cancer. The discovery ultimately could allow radiation dosage to be calibrated based on genetic mutations.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. has experienced a subtle “baby bump,” according to a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper co-authored by Northwestern University economist Hannes Schwandt.
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A secure firearm storage program in which pediatricians engage with parents on the importance of secure storage has been proven to help keep firearms out of the hands of young people. But a new study has found preliminary evidence that this program may not be reaching all parents equitably.

Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new $121 million gift to Northwestern to advance biomedical discovery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, reinforce the University’s position as a global research powerhouse and expand executive education at the Kellogg School of Management.

The Imagine U 2022-23 season opens with “Me… Jane: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall,” Oct. 21 to Nov. 6, 2022, and will close with “The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats,” Feb. 24 to Mar. 5, 2023. Performances take place at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on the Evanston Campus.

An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. Affectionately referred to as the B.O.A.T. (“bright of all time”), the powerful explosion is more than 10 times brighter than previously recorded GRBs.

Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals called shape memory, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles.

Pregnant smokers reduced their smoking by an average of one cigarette per day before becoming aware they were pregnant, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study of more than 400 pregnant people. Then, in the month after learning of their pregnancy, participants reduced smoking by another four cigarettes per day.

Julio M. Ottino, dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, will step down as dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, Provost Kathleen Hagerty announced today.

A new Northwestern Medicine study reports significant variation in the prevalence of obesity among subgroups of Asian American adults. Health risks in this population also may start at a lower BMI than standard BMI definitions of obesity.