Research News
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Nursing Home Staffing is Worse in Disadvantaged CommunitiesStudy reveals local disparities in clinical staff hours in nursing homes, particularly among higher paid workers
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Mass Screening, Peer Support, and Treatment Reduce HIV in People Who Inject DrugsInnovative intervention improves HIV identification and care in at-risk population in Vietnam
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What Americans Still Want From Government Reform–A Midsummer UpdateIn a morning webinar on Wednesday, July 20, New York University professor Paul C. Light will release research showing that public trust in government is at “historic lows.”
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Gender Bias in Search Algorithms Has Effect on Users, New Study FindsGender-neutral internet searches yield results that nonetheless produce male-dominated output--results have an effect on users by promoting gender bias and potentially influencing hiring decisions.
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Whole Exome Sequencing Predicts Whether Patients Respond to Cancer ImmunotherapyA two-step approach with sequencing of 20,000 genes improves prediction of who benefits from immune checkpoint inhibitors
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Climate Factors Predict Future Mosquito ActivityRainfall, Air and Ocean Temperatures Linked to Populations of Dengue-Spreading Mosquitoes in Sri Lanka
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Shedding New Light on Dark MatterA new analysis by a team of physicists offers an innovative means to predict ‘cosmological signatures’ for models of dark matter.
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Scientists Engineer Synthetic DNA to Study “Architect” GenesBuilding artificial Hox genes enables researchers to see how cells learn their location in the body
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The Quest for a Better SunscreenHow Cancer Drug Research Led Chemistry Professor Marcus Weck to Patent a Sunscreen Ingredient That Provides Longer-Lasting Protection
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Women in Science Receive Less Credit for Their ContributionsStudy first to use new dataset to show gender differences in scientific attribution