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Northwestern receives $25 million gift to advance adolescent mental health research
New institute will study psychology of emerging adults, leading to innovative wellness programming for students at the University and beyond Northwestern University is launching the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being, an interdisciplinary initiative to research issues related to the...
Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer’s Model
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new approach that directly combats the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In these devastating illnesses, proteins misfold and clump together around brain cells, which ultimately leads to...
First Synthetic ‘Mini Prion’ Shows How Protein Misfolding Multiplies
Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands (or fibrils) of misfolded tau proteins, which then...
Structure Dictates Effectiveness, Safety in Nanomedicine
Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level. The specific location of each atom within the drug molecule is a critical factor in determining how well it works and how safe it...
By 15 Months, Infants Begin to Learn New Words for Objects — Even If They’ve Never Seen Them
Human language allows us to learn new words for things we’ve never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word’s meaning. But how early does this ability become...
2025 Convocation speaker Junta Nakai ’04 shows how grit and determination fueled his success in the tech world
Junta Nakai knows exactly how he got here. Here, is his position as the global vice president at Databricks, a San Francisco-based data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) company. The globe’s sixth-largest startup, Databricks, was recently valued at $62 billion. And how...
New Function Discovered For Protein Important In Leukemia
Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell nuclei of all flora and fauna. In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1...
New Study Highlights Disparities In Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure And Challenges In Urban Emissions Modeling
Life is a highway, but what are the emissions along it? It turns out, that answer could change depending on which dataset one uses. A new study led by Victoria Lang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary...
Adopting Zero-Emission Trucks and Buses Could Save Lives, Prevent Asthma in Illinois
Guided by the lived experiences of community partners, Northwestern University scientists have simulated the effects of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) adoption on future air quality for the greater Chicago area. The results were published today in the journal Frontiers of Earth Science. Motivated by California’s...
First Radio Pulses Traced to Dead-Star Binary
An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University astrophysicist, has traced a series of mysterious radio pulses to an unprecedented home. Starting a decade ago, astronomers have detected a pulse of radio emission every two hours, coming from the direction...
