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Improving university-community research partnerships

Researchers from Tufts University and their community-based colleagues have identified several strategies to improve community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships.

Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass.--There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications -- from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguides are of particular interest because of their ability to manipulate and transport light in a controlled manner in a variety of configurations.

Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats -- resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times -- cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as Friedreich's ataxia. There is no cure for this condition, which damages the nervous system and can result in heart disease.

Isaac Newton's Apple Tree Grows at Tufts

Thanks to an eminent Tufts cosmologist and his colleagues, Tufts University has received cuttings from an apple tree at MIT that traces its lineage to the English farm where Sir Isaac Newton lived in the 1600s.

Obesity linked to dangerous sleep apnea in truck drivers

Truck crashes are a significant public health hazard causing thousands of deaths and injuries each year, with driver fatigue and sleepiness being major causes.

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Improving university-community research partnerships

Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs

Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

Isaac Newton's Apple Tree Grows at Tufts

Obesity linked to dangerous sleep apnea in truck drivers

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