Estrogen Receptors in Mom’s Placenta Critical During Viral Infection Innate immune response would harm the fetus, so placenta tamps it down DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke and Mt. Sinai have identified a molecular mechanism...
Sniffing Out COVID-Related Loss of Smell An immunologist, neurobiologist, virologist, and medical doctor join forces to study one of COVID-19’s stranger mysteries: the sharp loss of smell and taste
Transcription Factors May Inadvertently Lock in DNA Mistakes Binding to mismatched DNA takes less energy; may explain how regulatory mutations get locked in DURHAM, N.C. -- Transcription factor proteins are the light switches of the human genome. By...
Why Wednesday Is the Favorite Day for This Undergraduate Science Student Or if something has fundamentally shifted in our institution, and more largely in each of us individually, that only leaves us with a path forward to a new Duke, rather than a return to the old.
Duke Researchers Discover How Malaria Parasites Withstand a Fever’s Heat Findings could lead to ways to maximize our existing antimalarial arsenal DURHAM, N.C. -- Even when a person suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too sick...
Scent-Sensing Cells Have a Better Way to Fight Flu Olfactory neurons can fight off influenza B without being killed DURHAM, N.C. – Influenza researchers have long focused most of their efforts on the...
Duke Labs Begin Phased, Deliberate March Toward Reopening With plenty of safeguards and patience, some research resumes in pockets on campus On most days, Stacy Horner does her work in the CARL Building, where corridors and labs are...
