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Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment

WebRisk on the Table highlights historical cases that illuminate the history of food safety, exposing the powerful tensions among scientific understandings of risk, …

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health – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebThe college experience often involves at least one road trip, but most students do not bring along their faculty adviser. But last spring, two graduate students …

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Global Health – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebIn late 2010, cholera spread through the streams and rivers of Haiti, killing hundreds of people within weeks. Using maps of river networks and population centers, …

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The rising cost of health care: Students examine policy solutions

WebWith health care costs soaring, opinions abound on the best way to control costs without sacrificing patient outcomes. This past academic year, as part of their …

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Energy boost: Study sheds light on mitochondrial disease

WebIn a study published on Dec. 18, 2014, in the journal Cell, the researchers demonstrated that an enzyme known as Sirtuin 4 acts as a guardian of cellular energy …

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National Institutes of Health – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebA study published in the journal Nature Microbiology identified factors that the hepatitis B virus uses when establishing long-term infection in the liver.

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Janet Currie investigates the building blocks of children’s success

WebDiscovery: Research at Princeton is produced by the Office of the Dean for Research. Office of the Dean for Research New South 5th Floor Princeton, New Jersey …

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How We Age: The Science of Longevity

WebIn How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains …

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How cancer stem cells evade the immune system

WebWhen the immune system cannot attack the cancer cells, the cells can spread to surrounding tissues, a process known as metastasis and a leading cause of …

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Forecasting the next COVID-19 – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that the ravages of disease aren’t only the harsh reality in far-off impoverished lands, she said. The complacency of …

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Computer chip for point-of-care diagnosis

WebAssistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Kaushik Sengupta and his team are developing a computer chip-based diagnostic system, which rests comfortably on a …

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The literature of madness and how it shaped modern psychiatry

WebDöblin’s 1924 “true-crime” novella, Two Girlfriends Commit Murder by Poisoning, about a court case involving lesbians who plotted to kill their husbands, …

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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

WebYale University Press, April 2020 By Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, and Kristen Gresh, the …

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Of lava lamps and living cells – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebBrangwynne’s research shows that structures within living cells can form and dissolve depending on changing conditions, more like the undulating interior of a lava …

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Discovery provides a path to safe, clean, plentiful energy

WebBy John Greenwald. Fusion — the energy-producing reaction that powers our sun and most stars — can be a safe, clean and virtually limitless source for …

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Age of intolerance

WebIn his book, History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Princeton scholar Reimitz examines the …

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

WebBy Adam Hadhazy Clifford Brangwynne, whose research explores the hidden order within cellular liquid, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute …

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Like clockwork – Discovery: Research at Princeton

WebLike sleep, appetite, and body temperature, immunity operates on a circadian rhythm — an innate, 24-hour cycle that relies on light signals from the environment to …

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