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Duke Health Unveils Name of New Behavioral Health Center
Duke Health’s one-of-a-kind behavioral health building will begin welcoming patients this spring.
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Duke Science and Technology: Pyroptotic Cell Death
Duke's Ed Miao, MD, PhD, a professor in the Departments of Immunology, Molecular Genetics, and Biology, was the first to demonstrate that pyroptosis...
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The Drug Guy Changes Course
Breast cancer researcher Donald McDonnell, PhD, met his wife, Mary, in Maine for a week of vacation. Sitting at a secluded inn on Anne’s Point, McDon...
![ennifer Freedman (center front), Steve Patierno (far right) and other researchers previously found RNA splicing differences in prostate cancer between African American men and White men. Now Freedman studies RNA splicing differences in lung cancer.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_archive_850_x_560/public/2021-04/about-time-excerpt.png?itok=GB8Klv2H)
About Time
As the COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on health disparities, efforts to find new ways to reduce them get a boost.
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A Detour Into Melanoma
Postdoctoral Fellow Binita Chakraborty, PhD was intrigued: in published analyses of large numbers of patients with melanoma (skin cancer) treated with...
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$2 Million Bay Area Lyme Foundation Grant to Benefit Lyme...
For many years, the late Neil L. Spector, MD, who was a leading cancer researcher at Duke Cancer Institute, struggled with Lyme disease. Initially, he...