Latest Releases

Northwestern Medicine’s SuperAger research on adults over 80 years old with superior memory capacity will expand beyond its Chicago roots to include sites across the United States and one in Canada.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Oct. 1 announced new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Northwestern University and the University of Chicago for gun violence-prevention research.

Northwestern University, along with 24 other research sites across the United States, has embarked on a longitudinal early childhood brain development study to assess how exposures to substances and environments before and after birth may affect the brain.

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also referred to as diastolic heart failure, affects at least 2.5 million people in the U.S.; however the cardiovascular community has a very limited understanding of how to prevent or effectively treat it. Northwestern University has been awarded two grants totaling $18.1 million to research this condition.

Researchers proposed a new method for recording information to DNA that takes minutes, rather than hours or days, to complete. The team's method could change the way scientists study neurons inside the brain.

Victor Yampolsky, the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, marking the conclusion of a 38-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern.

After medicine went missing from the Shedd Aquarium's quarantine habitat, Northwestern researchers cracked the case. They found microbes eating the medicine for nitrogen.

Researchers have analyzed ancient zeolite specimens collected from the edges of East Iceland to discover that zeolites separate calcium isotopes in a wholly unexpected way.

Social media behemoths Facebook and YouTube made headlines this week over public health concerns. Northwestern University psychology and political science experts are available to comment.
* Media Advisory

Researchers leveraged cantilever-based sensor platform to develop rapid, cost-effective and multiplexed antigen test, with potential for point-of-care diagnosis that can detect different variants and diseases.