A new model for conducting prevention research in Alzheimer’s disease is being launched by Duke University Medical Center assisted by the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, MD, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at Duke University, has been named the new president of The J. David Gladstone Institutes, an independent non-profit biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco. Williams leaves Duke after having served for six years as dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and, most recently, two years as Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn

The Society for Neuroscience awarded a Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience to Ryohei Yasuda, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Duke University Medical Center’s Department of Neurobiology, during the society’s annual meeting.

Exercise is a key factor in improving both memory and mood after whole-brain radiation treatments in rodents, according to data presented by Duke University scientists at the Society for Neuroscience meeting on Oct. 18.

Duke University Medical Center, in partnership with The University of Washington’s Institute for Translational Health Sciences, Wayne State University, and Group Health Research Institute, have developed a new website to help researchers create and sustain successful multisite research collaborations.

Researchers say a new development in cord blood transplants for inherited metabolic disorders may be curative for some babies who are treated while still in the womb.

Common genetic mutations may help explain why some people develop side effects that lead to discontinuing the use of cholesterol-lowering statins. Duke University Medical Center researchers who identified the mutations say they might be used to help doctors match a medication with their patient’s genetic makeup.

A Duke University Medical Center researcher who spent years looking for the signals that prompt the brain to form new connections between neurons has found one that may explain precisely how a well-known drug for epilepsy and pain actually works.

Mention the words “bubble boy” and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, plastic bubble. David was born with severe combined immune deficiency, or SCID, a condition that robbed him of an immune system.

Vann Bennett, James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology at the Duke University Medical Center, is among those being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 229th class of new members here on Saturday, Oct. 10.

The natural cycle of building bone to maintain skeletal strength and then breaking it down for the body’s calcium needs is delicately balanced, but diseases like osteoporosis break down too much bone without adequate bone replacement, leading to bone fractures.

Combining home-based blood pressure monitoring and telephone counseling significantly improves a person's blood pressure control at a minimal cost, according to a study published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane and other tough grasses into ethanol that might be used as biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

State and local dignitaries will join leaders of Duke Medicine this Friday, Nov. 6, 2009), in breaking ground for the new Duke Medicine Cancer Center.

A new model for conducting prevention research in Alzheimer’s disease is being launched by Duke University Medical Center assisted by the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, MD, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at Duke University, has been named the new president of The J. David Gladstone Institutes, an independent non-profit biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco. Williams leaves Duke after having served for six years as dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and, most recently, two years as Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn

The Society for Neuroscience awarded a Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience to Ryohei Yasuda, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Duke University Medical Center’s Department of Neurobiology, during the society’s annual meeting.