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Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...


A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden

Biology /

created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...





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Study finds many consumers ignore food product recalls

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rutgers' Food Policy Institute (FPI) released a study today showing that many Americans fail to check their homes for recalled food products. Only about 60 percent of the studied sample reported ever having looked for recalled ...


Waste disposal protein is mechanism behind cancer tumor suppression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

"Taking out the trash" takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key ...


Rutgers research tackles childhood epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rutgers researchers have discovered a potential new way to treat childhood epilepsy using a widely available therapeutic drug.


The Future in Two Words: Ionic Liquids

The Future in Two Words: Ionic Liquids

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ionic liquids are molecular solutions that have a wide range of potential applications, including next-generation solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells and lithium batteries.


Noise echoes in cell communications

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 01, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Can't hear? Turn up the white noise, says a team of Rutgers-Camden professors who have produced a mathematical explanation for the benefits of noise. Their findings could lead to major improvements in hearing aid technology.


Researchers 'rewrite the book' in quantum statistical physics

Physics /

created Feb 09, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (36) | comments 0

An important part of the decades-old assumption thought to be essential for quantum statistical physics is being challenged by researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and colleagues in Germany and Italy. ...


Colleges expand summer sessions

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Summer session -- once a relatively small piece of the academic calendar -- is now a full-blown term for most colleges and universities, with more offerings, more students and more of an expectation that you can't graduate ...


Exercise can protect against skin cancer

Medicine & Health /

created May 15, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

While doctors and scientists have long agreed that physical activity has health benefits, Rutgers cancer researcher Allan Conney and his New Jersey colleagues have found that exercise can even protect against skin cancer.


1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)

1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.


A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden

Biology /

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...



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