Can immersing yourself in a South American jungle and the high-fiber, unprocessed diet of its villagers make your gut microbes more diverse? And could it have benefits for people with obesity, type 1 diabetes and other disorders?
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The millions of people search YouTube videos to learn about options for plastic surgery should beware of marketing campaigns that masquerading as educational materials. Learn about a first of its kind study – led by Boris Paskhover, an assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – that evaluated 240 top-viewed videos with 160 million combined view and found most contained misleading or incomplete information.
The reason is not white bigoted cops or a few bad apples, says Charles Menifield, dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark. To find out why more black men are killed by police, read our release, Menifield's op-ed in the Daily News and watch his interview on CBS News.
Indian Americans have the highest percentage of bed sharing in New Jersey, but also have the lowest rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths. Less alcohol use and smoking, and a helping hand from grandparents play a role, says Barbara Ostfeld, a professor of pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who led a study examining the correlation.
The warming ocean may cause the larvae of bottom-dwelling snails to hatch earlier in the spring, when waves are larger, potentially impacting their ability to survive and serve as food for other sea creatures.
It's like a Fitbit but equipped with a biosensor that could take person health monitoring to the next level, explains Mehdi Javanmard, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering. Learn more about the development by Rutgers engineers that can monitor the counts of different cells in our bloodstream, and watch Javanmard talk about the technology on NJTV.
In July, dozens of third and fourth year Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students began performing rotations at Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility. Retaining many of the next generation of physicians is important for a state that is so densely populated and home to young, growing families and aging baby boomers. Proximity to the beach helps.
More than 20 percent of all preschool-aged children in the nation speak a language other than English at home. A policy paper published by the National Institute for Early Education Research addresses the lack of state policies to support these children and outlines recommendations including enhanced teacher training and increased participation in high quality preschool programs.
Can you name the state bird? Soon there might be a state microbe in its company. A soil-based bacterium called Streptomyces griseus could become New Jersey’s official state microbe 75 years after Rutgers-New Brunswick scientists, including Nobel Prize-winner Selman Waksman, discovered its ability to cure tuberculosis. Read our release and the coverage in story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
How do you get picky eaters to try nutritious food? Let them help cook, says Christopher Ackerman, a research associate at the Center for Tobacco Studies at Rutgers School of Public Health and amateur chef. He has teamed up with a 2-foot-tall, bubble-eyed puppet inspired by a small frog species native to Puerto Rico to improve nutrition education in the South Bronx. Read the story and watch the video.
Rutgers–New Brunswick conducts first-ever classroom experimental study connecting in-class cellphone use with lower test scores.
After 10 years of research, a team of scientists led by Bonnie L. Firestein, a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers-New Brunswick, has identified two molecules that protect nerve cells after a traumatic brain injury. The findings could lead to new drug treatments that aim to allow people to retain their cognition and ability to remember and learn.