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Dr. Jennifer Jao, pediatric infectious disease expert from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been selected as co-chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Northwestern scientists have adapted a sensing platform to detect and even measure chemicals at low enough concentrations to have use outside the lab. The system, which is 10 times more sensitive than previous sensors built by the team, opens the door for the system to be applied to disease detection and monitoring in the human body for nucleic acids and bacteria.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Friday, Jan. 10 during TikTok’s appeal to stop the enforcement of a federal law that requires the social media titan to shut down in the U.S. this month.
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“The post-presidency of Jimmy Carter is unique in many ways. Largely unwritten are accounts of the cutting-edge programs created at the Carter Center,” said Richard Joseph, political science professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Professors from history, journalism and political science offer political, historical and personal assessment of Jimmy Carter.
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Risk to public remains low, but virus could mutate and become more transmissible
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As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage systems, shifting away from metal-based solutions will be critical to facilitating the green energy transition. A team at Northwestern University has transformed an organic industrial-scale waste product into an efficient storage agent for sustainable energy solutions that can one day be applied at much larger scales.

Northwestern University is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, the world’s largest monetary award for achievement in nanomedicine.

The annual MLK Commemoration celebration at Northwestern University leans into Chicago’s history and ongoing efforts to reverse the harms of housing segregation.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- As the Biden Administration comes to an end, Northwestern University economist Kirabo Jackson, former member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), will share his insights and discuss his time at the White House.
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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Friday called for cancer warning labels to be added to alcohol, citing that alcohol increases the risk of developing at least seven types of cancer.
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